No, but if all the sycophants and loyalists in the branches of government act like they are laws, those non-laws will still f*ck your life right up. Don’t ask me how I know.
Because a lot of us were told in school that "they're basically just temporary laws put in place by the president in times of crisis" and then theyre never brought up or even taught in further detail ever again
They're not but the president does have a lot of power over the executive branch and the last several presidents have each done a lot to push that further and further. Trump's just doing it gracelessly and artlessly and doing things with it that in theory nobody would even want to do.
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Affected institutions: very expensive to fight in court when The admin does the thing even though there's no law
The public: they dumb
The informed public: pretty panic-driven
More seriously though - Congress has abdicated a lot of authority to the executive branch.
The admin absolutely can make good on e.g. Title IX punishment and cost e.g. Columbia a shitload of money in lawyer's fees and fighting to get grants and contracts restored. Will the alumni and the board spend to protect protest rights?
Probably not, the alumni and board hate protest too.
They're not laws, but the arm of government that could tell Trump and Musk to go fuck themselves and get rid of his ass wanted all this shit in the first place and will happily give up their power forever to make it happen.
I’m reacting to the comparatively minor one of the US Army Corps of Engineers shutting down their meme page ‘to comply with executive order blahblahblah’, but it’s the whole thing. Everyone acting like they’re already obliged to do whatever he says.
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Affected institutions: very expensive to fight in court when The admin does the thing even though there's no law
The public: they dumb
The informed public: pretty panic-driven
More seriously though - Congress has abdicated a lot of authority to the executive branch.
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Probably not, the alumni and board hate protest too.