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Originally Posted by spence
I’m some respects Trump is worse than Hitler. Hitler and his cabal figured out how to seize absolute power largely within an existing legal structure. Trump hasn’t, and our system has many more safeguards so he’s testing the limits of authority to circumvent the law.
Congress has already surrendered, if the courts don’t stand up we may never see the mid-terms.
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There’s a good thread on Bluesky about this by Walter Olsen
“If I'm reading the White House's fact sheet correctly -- the text of the actual EO doesn't seem to have been posted yet -- today's new executive order is momentous but not because it aggresses against the role of the courts or touches off any sort of constitutional crisis. /1”
https://bsky.app/profile/walterolson.../3liimffwsas26
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