More than anything that story about the Marshals needs to not be true or be a temporary confusion. I'm not holding out hope.
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If the power to enforce the decisions of the courts disappears, then there is nothing stopping this from becoming a dictatorship.
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What Congress somehow fails to realize is that the power of the Judiciary is the only thing that truly gives them power.
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There are no takebacksies once the courts orders have less value than the paper they're printed on.
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At that point, Congress can pass whatever law it wants, but on the ones favorable to the administration will get enforced.
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Meanwhile, GOP voters are watching at home, pumping their fists, not realizing in 6 months it becomes their turn to pay the piper.
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Eventually they will realize they won a truly Pyrrhic victory.
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I am not sure anything positive pulls us out of this. I don't see a path out if this is true.
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I don't mean to be gloomy, but really. Our democracy has always been this fragile.
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Tangentially wondering if it’s possible to form any government that doesn’t rely on user behavior.
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