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That's right, it's the Venezuela model. It's also the Hungary model, the US model, the South Korea model, the Peru model, the Mongolia model, to name a few. All in recent years have had constitutional crises as a result of conflicts between a popularly elected president and a popularly elected legislative.

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Can you show me an example of a US president raising taxes, getting blocked by congress or something, and then asking the supreme court to force the taxes to be raised?

Not raising taxes specifically no, but yes, US presidents have asked the supreme court for permission to do things the legislative told them not to, and gotten it. One Trump famously got, was the right to fire almost all federal employees at will, including members of boards established to be bipartisan for political reasons.

But really, the US has had the same problem you see in Brazil for so long, the president usually doesn't even have to ask the court, because the legislative was already sidelined decades ago. That is the case for the rather important issue of going to war, which of course Trump has also done against legislative approval.

I see... That's honestly terrifying. I wasn't aware such things were happening in the US as well.

I am convinced that the judiciary is the ultimate weakness of democracy.

that's what other people have been tryin' to point out.

no matter the place the judiciary can be stacked to favor a party. in the US right now it's stacked to favor Trump & the republicans.

just like how u r complaining abt the brazilian judiciary.

Well, I agreed with anyone who pointed this out to me. Clearly the problem is not isolated to Brazil as I previously imagined.

This isn't right. Judiciary should be impartial. It shouldn't matter who it is, what party it is, the treatment should be equal. Anything less than that is profoundly destabilizing. I couldn't imagine even countries like the US would face the same issue.

Yes, you're describing the trump tariff saga in the USA (tariffs are taxes).

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