its kinda wild how easily this administration is exposing the flaws in so many institutions and the separation of powers, a bedrock of American self understanding, as a complete myth.
like really everything was always just a “gentleman’s agreement” not to fire everyone who disagrees with you, an agreement not to have any opposition threatened with extrajudicial arrest and incarceration, etc.
I shed no tears for USAID, but the raiding of classified personnel files by the richest man on the planet, an unconfirmed appointee and unlikeable Nazi weirdo, and his flock of teenage sycophants, seems like some kind of a move that should have triggered a failsafe to at least protect NatSec assets from extortion and embarassing the apparatus.
Americans watching Dems being “blocked” by Republicans and then Republicans ramming through whatever deranged measures they want as the supreme court is stuffed full of conservatives with no resistance: China is undemocratic!
It’s the same as “rules based international order”, it’s a fake sound bite.
Democrats are similarly incentivized to keep these things off book.
In practice the problem goes even further the US has no mechanism to get the government to generally abide by its own laws when there are no damages or damaged parties with legal recognition – even worse for foreign policy there is a standing precedent to not get involved it’s called the political question doctrine which itself is not fully defined and unsettled law.
For example you can’t sue the government:
to uphold Leahy Laws for exporting weapons to Israel because you don’t have standing.
for partisan gerrymandering.
sue a president for terminating an international treaty
its kinda wild how easily this administration is exposing the flaws in so many institutions and the separation of powers, a bedrock of American self understanding, as a complete myth.
like really everything was always just a “gentleman’s agreement” not to fire everyone who disagrees with you, an agreement not to have any opposition threatened with extrajudicial arrest and incarceration, etc.
I shed no tears for USAID, but the raiding of classified personnel files by the richest man on the planet, an unconfirmed appointee and unlikeable Nazi weirdo, and his flock of teenage sycophants, seems like some kind of a move that should have triggered a failsafe to at least protect NatSec assets from extortion and embarassing the apparatus.
Americans watching Dems being “blocked” by Republicans and then Republicans ramming through whatever deranged measures they want as the supreme court is stuffed full of conservatives with no resistance: China is undemocratic!
It’s not even reached the SC yet, they’re just doing whatever they want
Yeah that’s what “democratic norms” means.
It’s the same as “rules based international order”, it’s a fake sound bite.
Democrats are similarly incentivized to keep these things off book.
In practice the problem goes even further the US has no mechanism to get the government to generally abide by its own laws when there are no damages or damaged parties with legal recognition – even worse for foreign policy there is a standing precedent to not get involved it’s called the political question doctrine which itself is not fully defined and unsettled law.
For example you can’t sue the government:
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/historic-case-dismissed-ninth-circuit-panel-rules-courts-cannot