They’re not laser focused on it, not honestly. Within milliseconds of regaining the government, the democrats are going to start anxiously rubbing their hands and saying “well, okay, but what about norms? What if we make fox news and the republicans sad?” I’m not seriously expecting the democrats to do a goddamn thing to fix things. Trump has dealt the US’ republic a death blow. I’m a little curious and a lot scared to find out what comes next.
And yeah, I’m not holding my breath. Besides Thomas and Roberts, the other conservatives can at least get things right about as much as a broken clock. I’m hoping that they’ll be broken clocks here, too, but I’m expecting that they’re going to try to thread the needle of “not exactly telling Trump no while also not exactly doing anything meaningful at all”.
From what I understand the current case isn’t about the 14th amendment directly, but rather whether or not the judge had the authority to suspend Trump’s order. It’s a jurisdiction question, not a constitutionality question.
So yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they rule that it was outside the judge’s scope of power but that the 14th amendment question isn’t settled and has to be determined by a higher court.
They’re not laser focused on it, not honestly. Within milliseconds of regaining the government, the democrats are going to start anxiously rubbing their hands and saying “well, okay, but what about norms? What if we make fox news and the republicans sad?” I’m not seriously expecting the democrats to do a goddamn thing to fix things. Trump has dealt the US’ republic a death blow. I’m a little curious and a lot scared to find out what comes next.
And yeah, I’m not holding my breath. Besides Thomas and Roberts, the other conservatives can at least get things right about as much as a broken clock. I’m hoping that they’ll be broken clocks here, too, but I’m expecting that they’re going to try to thread the needle of “not exactly telling Trump no while also not exactly doing anything meaningful at all”.
From what I understand the current case isn’t about the 14th amendment directly, but rather whether or not the judge had the authority to suspend Trump’s order. It’s a jurisdiction question, not a constitutionality question.
So yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they rule that it was outside the judge’s scope of power but that the 14th amendment question isn’t settled and has to be determined by a higher court.
I was going to respond but their justification is very stupid.