Trump has expressed interest in using the insurrection act before.
But yes, I anticipate protests and counter-action by the government to increase over the term.
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But yes, I anticipate protests and counter-action by the government to increase over the term.
I suggest that this is consistent with the decreased level of competence generally with this administration. They are grossly inept.
Polling now suggests that most Americans believe that the government should follow judicial rulings. It's a political loser to continually attack, disobey and spar with judges. Hence the backtrack.
Or to protect government work they already have. (Or to reassure some clients they have that the government isn't targeting them.)
It's a bribe of some kind, the question is whether it is more of an extortion type bribe or a pay to play one.
The stupid part is that Trump could have set up a legitimate and reasonable government efficiency department with bilateral approval and could similarly have tightened and prioritized immigration programs and enforcement with bilateral approval.
But due to his IQ and personality limitations, he has done both in an alarming and disruptive fashion and come into conflict with the Constitution and the judiciary. These are self-inflicted wounds.
The tariffs and the cuts to social security are going to be far more damaging to his popularity with the general public.
He could be.
But this is the kind of thing the conservative majority generally supports.
Even if Trump is toxic, I could see them going with expanding his powers, even if they don't give him unfettered privilege.
Just not giving him everything will give the court a lot of positive press as being "moderate".
I think the USSC was doctrinally correct giving him immunity. I would have voted with the right wing majority on that issue.
That - and Dodds - doesn't mean the USSC is going to give him carte blanche.
I am inclined to think it is more a reflection of their increased confidence/arrogance.
But...
I do think they overestimated their hand with anti-judge sentiment.
Their counter argument here is, of course, that they don't intend to "continually attack, disobey and spar with judges". They expect to have won quickly enough as to no longer have to.
Of course.
But the power grab was more important than the policy goals.
The intent was to come into conflict with the Constitution and the judiciary.
I find that genuinely surprising.
No. They are going to give him a lot.
The question is how much.
Whose intention? The senile, self important old man who plays golf 4 days a week? Stephen Miller's and Vance's and some other fringe lunatics?
How much of this Trump is aware of in depth is difficult to say.
He already assumes he is allowed to have all that power and people saying no are just being dicks to him.
The more specific "do it by this aggressive method and wreck the checks and balances" is in line with the Project2025 crew's approach.
Neither the Dotard nor his retinue of fuckwits knew what they were getting into when they started to fight with judges. They've accumulated about 30 injunctions and restraining orders in 2 months and won only 4 appeals from those injunctions. It's about as smart as sticking their dick in a wood chipper.
Uh-huh. The parade of idiots who are Project 2025 thought it was a good idea and got Trump to go along with it by nudging him while he was "winning another golf tournament" at Mar-a-Shitpile.
Just like traitors like Kevin O' Leary and Jordan Peterson told the Dotard that Canada wanted him as our president and the fat old fuck believed that shit as well.
Just like the Russians told the Dotard that Zelinsky started the Ukraine War and Putin was a victim.
Trump is this vile old King Lear figure who no longer has a working brain - if he ever did - and who jerks off imagining Putin dressed as Cordelia.
I completely agree that they underestimated the pushback they would get by being as brazen as they have been.
I'm not sure that they really care and won't until they are fully stopped.
Musk might if he goes broke, if that's possible.
Oh, they care.
They would far prefer they weren't meeting resistance.
I agree that they won't just go "oh, the judges said no so we will stop".
