Yes, it's been hard to see the guardrails vaporize, and the courts side with flimsy pretexts to allow uses of the military and National Guard previously considered verboten. It's all been so easy. And we have more than 3 years left.

As I understand it, there are numerous injunctions and pending court cases. So, to claim "no legislation was necessary" isn't really accurate. There's a good chance a lot of the cases will go against the administration (many already have). If you're OK with your elected officials engaging in illegal actions, I guess it's all good. No telling how much of it will have to be unwound after the cases work their way through the courts. The unwinding will be difficult, and those caught-up prior to the unwinding will have suffered great injustice. MAGA doesn't care, of course. At least not until that injustice touches them. Then they'll scream.

Legislation would circumvent all of that, and has the added bonus of being the proper way to do it.