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You're really misrepresenting what's happening. It's not "president says". President issues an executive order. Which is a very specific constitutional legal pr
by bufferoverflow 2y ago
You're really misrepresenting what's happening. It's not "president says". President issues an executive order. Which is a very specific constitutional legal procedure with its own rules. It cannot contradict the Constitution. The Supreme Court can overturn it.
- ggm 2y agoThis is important, and needs to be understood contextually. They CAN overturn but they don't randomly overturn things: Somebody has to bring action and they have to accept a need to do something, and set it's priority against other work. They can put a stay on things or reverse, but it doesn't happen on a whim. And you need standing to bring things to their attention. Also the volume of executive orders over time is down net, the last 150 years. With a spike during WW2. Trump is exceeding local norms. But not historical highs. I happen to think the orders are shit. That's not the point.