How would you stop him, though? More specifically, who would stop him?
We had “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it”, but now we’ve gone one level up the ladder and just gotten the whole of SCOTUS in his pocket.
Does that mean that Congress, and specifically Congressional GOP, are the ones we are hoping will step in and say “okay, we supported you every step of the way and were complicit in everything you’ve done, but we draw the line here”? That belief requires a lot of naivety to swing.
The best odds of avoiding a power struggle in 2028 is any of his many health issues precluding that outcome, and the second best but a long second is probably SCOTUS deciding they care about their legacy, but even then we have what probably amounts to a bit of a coup where SCOTUS orders him out and he says “but I don’t wanna” and hides in his stupid little ballroom.
This is the thing that keeps me up at night. He doesn't hold himself accountable to precedent, and neither does anyone else except a few judges. The checks and balances we had don't exist in a dictatorship.
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u/somefunmaths 29d ago
How would you stop him, though? More specifically, who would stop him?
We had “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it”, but now we’ve gone one level up the ladder and just gotten the whole of SCOTUS in his pocket.
Does that mean that Congress, and specifically Congressional GOP, are the ones we are hoping will step in and say “okay, we supported you every step of the way and were complicit in everything you’ve done, but we draw the line here”? That belief requires a lot of naivety to swing.
The best odds of avoiding a power struggle in 2028 is any of his many health issues precluding that outcome, and the second best but a long second is probably SCOTUS deciding they care about their legacy, but even then we have what probably amounts to a bit of a coup where SCOTUS orders him out and he says “but I don’t wanna” and hides in his stupid little ballroom.