re: How soon before Trump starts arresting crooked lawyers and Judges for obstruction?

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This all happened during Trump’s first term.

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Biden's first term, too.

These TROs have existed as long as the power has existed. Very few people have argued that Congress may need to scale back this power a bit. However, that would, again, be Congress acting, not the Executive unilaterally.

I'll give an example of why this punitive system you want won't work. Look at the response to Roe until Hodges. All of those judges who were overruled over a 40-50 year period, would have been punished for making these decisions that weren't legally sound. No case would ever be permitted to make it up to the Supreme Court, for this reason. The strategy of pushing, pushing, and pushing more until they could get it overturned would be impossible. We would be left with Roe and no meaningful way to have it reviewed (out of fear that any judge not falling in line would be punished).

I'm just amused by "If we do ____, bad things start happening"

Yeah unlike *gestures at everything for the last 10 years*

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That's already in our current system, on multiple levels.

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As I pointed out, no it isn’t.

There hasn’t been a single federal judge impeached for poorly rendered or blatantly incorrect legal rulings.

And don’t you dare try to say it doesn’t happen.

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Libertarians did what ?

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SlowFlowPro

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Brah...you are may not like the democrat name tag, but you still lean far-left.

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, but you still lean far-left.

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I consider Trump's economics to be leftist

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I'll give an example of why this punitive system you want won't work. Look at the response to Roe until Hodges. All of those judges who were overruled over a 40-50 year period, would have been punished for making these decisions that weren't legally sound. No case would ever be permitted to make it up to the Supreme Court, for this reason. The strategy of pushing, pushing, and pushing more until they could get it overturned would be impossible. We would be left with Roe and no meaningful way to have it reviewed (out of fear that any judge not falling in line would be punished).

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Yeah this frames the issue well. If you're on the right, your choices to avoid injustice are to wait 49 years and hope for a win, or just go ahead and lose.

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I was clearly being euphemistic, referencing my first post.

There is a reason that whenever authoritarians take over, one of their first moves is to either create a new supreme legal body or overtake control of it.

Left-authoritarians, right-authoritarians, random African or Asian warlords, it is a very common pattern.

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I understand what you're saying. I think it is a grounded, sensible way to look at things.

It's the type of sensible approach that has seen us get our arse handed to us repeatedly over the last half century.

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That's already in our current system, on multiple levels.

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If a punishment is never used then it doesn't really exist.

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If you're on the right, your choices to avoid injustice are to wait 49 years and hope for a win, or just go ahead and lose.

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In Scruffy's system, there would be no path to "avoid injustice" in the face of a decision like Roe. Any judge that "ruled illegally" would be punished