Not much to say here, really. With the Trump administration's defiance of a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the administration must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador immediately, they have demonstrated that the ruling in Trump v. United States last July has made every other branch of government subordinate to the executive.
The Supreme Court made itself irrelevant that day. Everyone but them saw it. Well, the dissenters on the court saw it, but the right wing majority, drunk with power, planted the flag of the unitary executive and saluted. What they hell did they think would happen?
Maybe they thought that Trump wouldn't win the election. Maybe they just wanted to prepare the ground for a better right wing authoritarian to follow. They could be confident that a Democratic president wouldn't take advantage of the newly granted immunity.
The current composition of the Democratic Party doesn't favor strongman government. Their commitment to diversity is one of the things that makes their efforts so fragmented. They can't keep their coalition members playing nicely together long enough to win more than one election out of a dozen, it seems. Well, maybe a half-dozen. I don't have time at the moment to run the numbers. But you know what I mean. The party has attracted a few firebrands, but they strive against some well established wet blankets. And some of the firebrands, particularly before the 2024 election, seemed bent on burning down their own house over fine ideological points that would not be served by undermining efforts to prevent another Trump presidency.
It's up to the voters now. Voters have to choose solidarity with each other, democracy over dictatorship, in such overwhelming numbers that challenges will crumble under the obvious weight of the public's choice. So we're probably screwed, but I just want to put it out there. We do have the opportunity, early and often before the next election, and resoundingly in it, to make it obvious that the mass of us rejects the cruel efficiency of a government run like a business. That business turns out to be a meat packing plant processing us.
The Supreme Court may not be able to reclaim its power. But Congress can still impeach, the Senate can convict, and the president thus deposed can face criminal charges. At the very least he (or she in some theoretical future) can be barred from holding office in any capacity after that. And if they could overturn Roe v. Wade they can certainly overturn Trump v. United States once a case is brought to them.
Trump v. United States turns out to have been the most apt title ever. He is the foremost agent of the destruction of the United States, put in place by long term enemies both foreign and domestic.
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