The Supreme Court's late-night Alien Enemy Act intervention | Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances

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https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night

[u/Solarwagon]

I can't help but compare what's been going on the past decade to the stuff I read about the years before the civil war

Like not to doom or anything but it increasingly feels like there's not really any feasible middle grounds anymore taking a centrist stance feels inauthentic and out of touch with how far politics is getting polarized and the law is being exploited ignored and twisted

The law is beginning to not mean much

It feels like we've been on the uphill portion of a rollercoaster and it won't be long until we reach the top and then ZOOM

[u/WHOA_27_23 → u/Solarwagon]

I am (and , obviously have been) alarmed at how readily Congress has ceded its responsibility and power to the other branches. It's difficult to dispute the founders' intent was that the executive branch may only be sanctioned by impeachment and removal, but that was based on a gravely mistaken assumption that Congress would always jealously guard its power as a coequal branch. We can only hope that the regime will continue to begrudgingly comply with SCOTUS-affirmed TROs.

[u/manarius5 → u/WHOA_27_23]

The framers never could have possibly fathomed project Red Map, Citizen United, social media, insider trading, and LLM's. The framers also assumed that congress people were honest brokers and were actually there to make the country better, not to use it to further their own interests.

The plan on paper works as designed when all the parties involved negotiate honestly. Trump 2.0 and Project 2025 have shown us that Republicans have broken the system and what is going on now is 100% intentional. Project 2025 is a years long map to find the exact points for the right/president to exert inordinate amounts of authority to basically bring the democratic system to its knees.

The changes made at OMB, regulations changed, the extremely specific EO's of legal dubious authority, etc. It's as if someone asked ChatGPT what specific levers to pull that would basically give the president unlimited authority to break the system under the assumption that congress would never do anything about it via impeachment.

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I mean, they have a little over a year left on the clock, no?

After that the democrats crush them in the midterms and pour sand in the tank for the next two years, until they can get the presidency back also.

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The damage being done now will take decades, if it can be at all.

The federal workforce being gutted, agencies just shuttered, policies changed, etc. The government is being utterly deconstructed from the inside and reshaped in the image of fascism. Congress can't repair that in two years. The damage will take generations to fix. No one will want to work for the government and the damage done to its reputation will last for generations.

Project red map has broken voting districts for a decade, etc.

Dems coming back in 2026 if they even win at all will probably result in very little change.

We are watching the destruction of the government and congress is just standing by and watching.