It is both shocking and tragic that we have to have a piece like this. But it is excellent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o... - ThreadSky

normornstein.bsky.social • 84 days ago

It is both shocking and tragic that we have to have a piece like this. But it is excellent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion/what-if-trump-defies-courts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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carenow.bsky.social•84 days ago

“A foolish administration that seeks to defy the courts for short-term political gains or simply to show its ‘dominance’ of other institutions would soon seek shelter from the whirlwind it would undoubtedly unleash.” My takeaway:
Trump’s beyond foolish & won’t stop. Congress must impeach & convict!

markirakaufman.bsky.social•84 days ago

Does the OMB have the authority to unilaterally stop funding? Doesn't the Impoundment Control Act prohibit such actions?

carl3settlemyer.bsky.social•84 days ago

📌

tamarajconrad.bsky.social•84 days ago

Please post gift articles for those without subscriptions. One big problem with our information economy is that good information is behind a paywall and conspiracy theories and disinformation spreads like wildfire for free.

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•84 days ago

Shhhh

https://paywallreader.com/

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•84 days ago

It doesn't work 100% of the time, but it works often enough.

brightburro.bsky.social•84 days ago

Here you go.🙂

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion/what-if-trump-defies-courts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.8SfF.bvBWPl4Xi0kS

mikeythedude.bsky.social•84 days ago

Don't have a NYT subscription. :-\
But, yeah, it's sad we have an a fascist autocracy run by criminals, traitors. Ultimately, though, the SCOTUS will determine fates, and any fates that go against Musk's/Trump's wills will simply not be enforced.

sunwray.bsky.social•84 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/brightburro.bsky.social/post/3lifoi2t2mk2g

rgrayva.bsky.social•84 days ago

When Trump defies them.

eligit.bsky.social•84 days ago

If magas just disregard the legal system In the end it will come down to "who controls the most people with weapons?"
At some point push comes to shove.

eligit.bsky.social•84 days ago

That said, trump made this scotus, so ultimately they will do what he wants.
And then we all have to live in that environment, whatever it turns out to be exactly.

andochkat.bsky.social•84 days ago

Neither Trump nor Musk care a whit about the US economy or whether they completely crash it. They are doing Putin’s work for him. If complete destruction of the US economy is the only stick that dissuades complicity with this fascist attack on the Constitution, …

andochkat.bsky.social•84 days ago

it will have to be Republicans who don’t want to lose their beach house leading the charge. I am not optimistic.

rickpildes.bsky.social•84 days ago

We appreciate this trenchant comment from Norm Ornstein.

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