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Igel

(37,620 posts)
13. In a mutliverse, sure.
Mon May 25, 2026, 02:10 AM
Monday

But not the one I inhabit. If yours differ, please, let me know. Let's compare Hubble constants, shall we? Perhaps in the Social Democrat Republic of Iran/

Otherwise ...

In ours--lic. "mine"--under majority interpretation, the President hedges in small ways against judiciary oversight, and pushes the envelope for Congressional. Trump isn't Jackson. And Trump's Congress isn't FDR's. The extrema are ... small. And embarrassingly do. imagine a home schooled jock in the locker room for the first time, come his junior year and realizing how he simply is ... um ... not measuring up. Yes. Feel that. Other reject 'empathy' as a Progressive value. Many have; join the wrong. uh ... 'wronged' ... uh ... no.

Congress simply lets constitutional safeguards slumber; that's up to them. Obama exploited this to his advantage (stupid courts, applying estoppal lke that!). If you don't use a provision, that provision isn't abrogated. (Unless you're Obama. Yes. That's the pesticide resistant flea my cats 'gifted' me.) I don't like worshippers of estoppel at the federal level. Ehem. (Personally, I think that's a concept beyond most MAGA.)

The rest is lassitude. Not an abrogation, but not wrong.

If Biden could promulgate a policy, saying as he signed an EO saying he expected SCOTUS to knock it down but at least for a while he'd accomplish a goal, that's clear enough with me. Get away with what you can. Push limits, push boundaries. Biden exalted it, Trump kept the exaltation going.

If A = B and B = C, then A = C.

(Perhaps a bit too 'on the spectrum' to ne allowed in anything but very regimented 'polite society'. Dunno. If I did, hey, not on that thang.)

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