Comment by svnt
1 year ago
If the court cannot have an opinion more valid than the issuer of the EO, then on what authority can they invalidate it? The issuer can always say: that isn't how the law is meant to be read.
First they marginalize, then they alienate, then they never have to take the extreme action that people like you would recognize as a problem.
Doesn't the EO apply specifically to the executive branch? How is this marginalizing the judicial branch?
In the famous Frost/Nixon interviews:
> "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
If the President orders the exec branch to ignore the courts on this argument, he hasn’t ordered the judges to do anything, but he is fucking with their power nonetheless.