Also the entire Jan 6 Committee.
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Will those pardons be honoured though? If the rule of law is out the window, Trump & Co. may just toss them in prison anyway.
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That’s my worry. Of course, as an “official act” there would be no recourse. I expect him to declare all Biden’s acts to be immediately null and void and unleash the vengeance he has been dreaming of. Yeah, I’m not good today.
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That’s no reason not to issue them or not to praise their being issued.
Anything might happen. This is very likely to protect those people.
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I hope you are right.
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Our Constitution and system of government has always relied on everyone involved in it respecting it. Obviously, Trump doesn’t. I would say most others in government still do, even though they may not all interpret it the same way. I think this will come down to certain people on the Supreme Court and in Congress realizing that if they let Trump blatantly and entirely ignore the Constitution, they would be shooting themselves in, not the foot, but the head.
I have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. The Supreme Court has no inherent ability or mechanism to enforce their own decisions. They have no agents or armed force which can demand the enforcement of their opinions. They are, and always have been, entirely dependent on the executive branch and the legislative branch voluntarily abiding by their decisions. This is what concerns me about the TikTok fiasco. I don’t agree with the law, but Congress passed it. Biden signed it. And it survived a Constitutional challenge all the way to the Supreme Court. And then Biden said he wouldn’t enforce it, and it seems clear now that Trump won’t either. I cannot, off the top of my head, think of another case where this has happened. This is a bad sign for the next four years, and the Supreme Court had better wake up, or they’re going to be nothing but a useless vestigial organ of our government.
Congress, likewise, needs to wake the fuck up. They (and I do mean both sides this time) have been ceding power to the executive branch for the last 100 years. If Republicans successfully render the Democratic Party minor and practically unelectable, they will have neutered themselves without realizing it. If they become nothing more than a rubber stamp for Trump, and refuse to force him to enforce their own laws, they become nothing more than window dressing.
And both SCOTUS and Congress need to realize that they won’t benefit financially from this. Once they cede all their power and authority to Trump, why would any lobbyists give them money? Why would they need to? Why would people like Harlan Crowe “befriend” someone like Clarence Thomas and pay for fancy vacations and buy his mother’s house? He wouldn’t need to. They just have to give the money to Trump and bypass the then useless middlemen.
It is not too late for SCOTUS and Congress to wake up and realize all this. They have time. But this is an inflection point in American history.
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The entire world has its collective fingers crossed for the U.S.
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Fantastic news.
What does it say, though, that it took him until just about the very last minute…
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The Republic is not an empire of men or of laws; it’s an empire of norms.
Trump laid this fact bare 8 years ago, along with all the weaknesses that it entails, but I guess it wasn’t important enough to fix.
I’m having serious trouble being hopeful at this point 
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The alternatives to hope are surrender and war. I’m never giving up, and I’m not ready to resort to war. I may not ever be.
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Oh, that’s great…
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Yes!
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