• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah so Biden did an executive order to forgive student debt, it got challenged in the courts and so it didn’t happen.

    People saying “Democrats should just do executive orders like Trump does” need to look into who’s on the Supreme Court.

    The “do everything by EO” strat only works for a party that has had a loyal voting base for decades so they have control of the courts.

    Sorry to interrupt the “both sides” narrative leftists/MAGAs love so much.

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      4 hours ago

      ^ This. If we’re lucky enough to get a Democratic president willing to abuse the executive order system the way Trump is, and make no mistake, it IS abuse… the same Supreme Court that ruled “Well, the President can do it” would look at a Democratic President and go “Whoah, woah, whoah, we didn’t mean YOU could do it.”

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      8 hours ago

      No, the real strat is to ram hundreds of EOs through so fast the courts don’t have time to shoot them all down. And then, I dunno, drone strike the opposition and call it an official presidential act cause evidently that’s cool now.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Exactly, it was all set up in the first term. They not only got the Supreme Court but also put in place a record number of judges across the country as well. They went for the throat, and everyone let them. Now you have corrupt people everywhere they need to do whatever they want, and also showed that even if they do get shot down, they still don’t listen, and nothing happens, so whats the actual point?