re: Greg Abbott releases statement on Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense

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The constitution. It gives the executive very broad and effectively supreme power over the borders, and the Court has consistently given the president vast power in that regard.

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If the executive can simply ignore wide swaths of law, why couldn't an executive simply say "F*ck it, I'm not enforcing the tax law. No one has to pay taxes anymore!".

It violates the basic idea of balance of power. At that point the executive has the power over the legislative branch. That's what made the most recent decision so rotten. It pretty much means the president can Veto congress in an unoverridable manner. He can just ignore the laws they pass.

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We've never quite gotten to a point where the executive is just refusing to exercise his powers to the detriment of the State to this degree.

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We've been here for a couple of decades at this point.