Comment by nielsbot
1 year ago
Who will enforce following the law if the executive branch ignores the judicial?
In theory the military is sworn to defend the constitution, but if the DOD is headed by a Trump loyalist (it is), then what?
1 year ago
Who will enforce following the law if the executive branch ignores the judicial?
In theory the military is sworn to defend the constitution, but if the DOD is headed by a Trump loyalist (it is), then what?
> Who will enforce following the law if the executive branch ignores the judicial?
Congress through impeachment. If they don't do that, all bets are off.
But who enforces impeachment? Who evicts the President?
Upon impeaching the President, the VP would become President, and he would order the military to remove the ex-President. At that point the military would have to decide if it's more loyal to Congress or the ex-President.
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And who impeaches a President which just gave himself the right to authoritatively misinterpret the law in whatever way they want and in turn can trivially turn you live into a living hell if they insist too
especially if you yourself could get a part of the pie and don't think it will negatively affect you
I mean don't get me wrong if they would do so literally tomorrow it would work.
But as the majority of senate likely feel they have little to loose it won't be tomorrow.
And when they realize that maybe they won't get part of the pie (they are mostly now useless for him) it will be to late and the fear of repercussions will have set in.
There is no suggestion that that’s going to happen.
The Vice-President of the United States is openly suggesting it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx3j5k63xo.amp
and the president did too in slightly more subtle way
Not really. Here’s a good explanation from Harvard constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/123-what-vice-president-vance...