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Your court system wasn't designed for the Executive branch acting with actual bad intent.

You're a country of laws, but if enforcing them takes months if not years... Then during that time, you're the wild wild west

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The system also wasn't designed for presidential immunity. Combining that with unlimited federal pardons, we're the wild west permanently, or at least until that decision is overturned.

I suspect cynically that as soon as someone not a republican takes power the presidential immunity will magically evaporate in a burst of bad faith jurisprudence.

This comment is hilariously incorrect. Courts stop the Executive branch all the time. You do not know what you're talking about.

I believe they’re speaking of a defiant executive, as in "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"

As opposed to a compliant executive that voluntarily does what the courts tell them to.

We have not seen a non-compliant executive in this country since FDR. People need to actually read the output from the Court and the associated response from the Executive branch, and not the news. I realize we a swimming in a soup of chaos about this current administration, but there has been no Andrew Jackson moment. This White House does something, and there is an injunction, and they back off. They have a pretty good batting average at the appeals level and at SCOTUS, but there is no instance I can reference where they deliberately ignore an order from the courts.

Broad strokes, probably mostly accurate. In the margins, some of the deportation flights were in malicious violation of direct court orders.

Courts don’t have the authority to do that.

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