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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sutton   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: What I Really Think
Date: 02/07/25 9:46 AM
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What if [current POTUS] doesn't care what the SC says and continues to do whatever it was he was doing? It is clear the legislature is not going to hold him accountable...Congress clearly doesn't have the backbone to hold him accountable and the SC doesn't have the means.

Yup. Imagine an elderly POTUS who throughout his life has wrecked everything he's touched yet somehow always managed to go on living consequence-free.

Now point out to him that while it is a separate branch of government from his - the judiciary - who interpret the laws, the enforcement of the laws on a federal basis is entirely the purview the Justice department. Detecting the crime, alleging the crime, placing into custody the perpetrators while awaiting trial, and executing whatever penalty the judiciary imposes are all administered by (in his mind) people who work for him.

Remind him he lives in a SCOTUS-mandated consequence-free zone, and of his unlimited Constitutional ability to exempt anyone he pleases from any Federal judicial consequences as well (although I'm guessing no reminders are necessary).

I hear the ghost of Joseph Stalin asking how many divisions the Pope has (1)

-- sutton

(1) wordhistories.net - How many divisions pope
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