(10 hours ago)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sure you can, and that's what we should have done. Oh well. We had sleepy joe and milqetoast merrick at the wheel.
In the US Constitution, the separation of the three branches was clearly created having in mind that whoever is part of them does play by the rules, and the rules are: If you are in one of the branches of government you are to compete with the other two. If people decide, and thats what GOP did, to put people in place who clearly put party and self-interest way in front of this principle, you get exactry what you have: Collaboration between SCOTUS judges (majority), the president and the house, all ruled by republicans, by people who put party and self-interest on top of their prio list. And then there is a major part of the electorate who either does not notice or does not care.
There is no law, amendment or whatever that could force the likes of Trump, Tomas (et al.), McConnel (Graham, etc.) to play "fair" and wrestle for influence for the betterment of the US. Likewise, in Weimar Article 48 was used, probably with rather good intentions, to bypass separations between the Reichspräsident and the Reichstag.
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