I’m worried about it because I am absolutely convinced that this is the administration’s strategy.

Go big. Ask for the ridiculous. Then:

(A) If you get it, you win
(B) if you get a lot of it, you’re ahead
(C) If you get blocked, slow walk, delegitimize

If SCOTUS doesn’t get that, that’s bad
The big thing I’m worried about:

(1) Administration makes sanctionably frivolous executive power claims

(2) SCOTUS doesn’t accept them but

(A) Signs off on power claims alarmingly close to them and/or

(B) Makes it virtually impossible to effectively prevent the exec from acting on them anyway

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