Exactly this. Courts are a critical check but they are far from a wholistic solution to a president seeking total power.
What makes it to court is the tip of the iceberg of what happens inside the halls of power. (And there is no guarantee the courts won't rubberstamp some democratic backsliding.)
What makes it to court is the tip of the iceberg of what happens inside the halls of power. (And there is no guarantee the courts won't rubberstamp some democratic backsliding.)
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Jamal Greene
I think part of the reason the NYT (et al.) don't yet see this as a crisis is its wildly erroneous belief that "nearly all intragovernmental government disputes eventually wind up" in federal courts. (1/3) "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/trump-constitutional-crisis.html?smid=url-share
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