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> If the executive refuses to abide by the laws of the country, who has control to stop it?

Three years ago J.D. Vance and others were already thinking about this and anticipating court cases:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...

To quote the article: “I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” [Vance] said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” “And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

They've been preparing themselves to ignore judicial rulings and they may well do that.






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