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  • jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Honestly I didn’t know that random courts can do stuff like this in the US. Can’t Joe Biden sign some executive order or something?

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Joe Biden can punt a child across the white house lawn without consequence. He will simply shrug and call for the courts to be democratic and urge billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes. The end.

    • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      as usual rather than passing anything in gridlocksville (congress) dems just have an agency of the executive branch issue a rule leaving it open to all kinds of easy legal challenges. So they can say “we tried”

    • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      Biden can challenge this to higher level courts, but since they are also under Republican control they are probably going to tell him to pound sand.

      An executive order probably wouldn’t do anything (they’d rule it out too)

    • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Even if they couldnt before, the Supreme Court recentlt ruled that courts get the final call over executive branch stuff. Things are unbelievably fucked over here