You know what’s a sure sign that you live in a dictatorship? The executive branch stops obeying the legislative branch.

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    5 days ago

    Or else what? What are the courts going to do about it when their orders get ignored?

    The Supreme Court has already said that anything a POTUS does in an official capacity is legal.

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      Well, in a not-dictatorship, the prez voluntarily obeys court orders, and gets impeached if he dares not to. In a dictatorship, yes-men congresscritters suck up to the prez to keep their jobs.

      You decide whether we live in a not-dictatorship or in a dictatorship.

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      Not that anything he does is legal, just that he can’t be held personally legally responsible for it after leaving office.

      I share your concerns, but the supreme court hasn’t said the president can do anything he wants (yet).

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        Tomato, tomato.

        Rules that lack consequences for breaking them are just suggestions.