• tabarnaski
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    3 days ago

    At that point, he’ll die, Vance will take his place, and will be so un-charismatic that he’ll be defeated by a Democrat in 2028 which will find themselves with all this power thanks to the Supreme Court… but will prefer to take the high road and reach across the aisle only to get fucked once again.

    Well, I tried.

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      3 days ago

      Had me in the first half, not gonna lie. For a second, I thought you believed that the Democrats would try to do something productive.

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      2 days ago

      Nah even if they tried SCOTUS would figure out some way to suddenly narrow it’s ruling. And being a good Democrat they’d comply.

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        There’s already a path for them to do this.

        Trump is already calling for a ban on nationwide injunctions, saying that any injunctions or rulings can only be applied to the specific people involved in the lawsuit and are not binding anywhere else.

        If Congress passes such a bill, Trump will certainly sign it.

        And once that happens, the Supreme Court could at that point just anoint Trump with whatever powers he wants and not have to worry about those powers being used by the next President, since their rulings would only apply to Trump by default, which is exactly what he wants. It would literally turn our judicial system into Calvinball.