Comment by ipython
1 day ago
So the DoW should have the ability to perform mass surveillance on American citizens?
Mind you, that is not the DoW’s charter. How would a restriction on that be “unfit” as you say?
The DoW is perfectly within their rights not to purchase anthropic products. That’s different than labeling them a supply chain risk.
The DOW should (and does) have ability to do anything and everything that Congress has said they can do.
Congress is not the British parliament. There is no congressional sovereignty.
The US is a constitutional republic, it does not have a system where anything Congress decides is law.
> The US is a constitutional republic, it does not have a system where anything Congress decides is law.
Really now? Then why does it say in the Constitution that it was created to pass laws?
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So, for example, if Congress says the military can require the entire domestic population to be Catholic and kill anyone who isn't... ?
That's not how it works.
Congress can do that, can't it? Why can't it? It could declare all competing religions as terrorist organisations.
Obviously it'd be immoral, unorthadox and impractical but I expect Congress has a long history of promoting and stamping out ideologies and they can do it. What little I know about the civil rights era springs to mind.
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Congress cannot do anything the Supreme Court says they cannot do
It actually is, and this is why there are separate judicial, executive and legislative branches to put those checks and balances on each other instead.
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The passed a law directing the military to round-up and arrest every japanese in the US and hold them indefinetely, and the military did so.
The military will kill anyone instructed to kill. Especially if it is in the body of a law passed by Congress.
Do you think in the military you can just be like “Yeah, I don’t feel it today, I’m going to take s sick day”?
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