• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”

    SCOTUS: “Overruled”

    Co-equal branches bitches

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        Let me introduce you to the Marshall of the Supreme Court.

        They can, and will, deputize as many as they need.

        Unless, of course, this is all part of the plan and the Supreme Court is, in fact, complicit anyway.

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            Indeed. The persistent hope of average Americans that some superhero will ride in from stage left and fix all of this for them is… something. It won’t happen. You all need to work together on this. Everybody needs to act and fight.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        not even unprecedented in american politics. it’s a tried and tested way to commit a genocide as a populist dictator