The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a significant and rare loss for the administration on the conservative court’s emergency docket.
All the checks and balances have the loophole that there’s effectively nobody available to enforce them that the executive branch can’t (and hasn’t) already undermined.
The only remaining check and balance that has any possible credibility is the people, the people who threw the tea into Boston harbor, the people for whom the 1st and 2nd amendments exist, the people who conducted a million man march in defense of civil rights. Those people. And those people all seem to be stuck in some combination of: completely asleep at the wheel; too disorganized and busy fighting against each other over petty ideological distinctions; too busy trying to keep their heads down and scrape out a living while hoping this all goes away or somehow won’t affect them; or jumping onboard the bandwagon themselves and cheering all this stuff along.
All the checks and balances have the loophole that there’s effectively nobody available to enforce them that the executive branch can’t (and hasn’t) already undermined.
The only remaining check and balance that has any possible credibility is the people, the people who threw the tea into Boston harbor, the people for whom the 1st and 2nd amendments exist, the people who conducted a million man march in defense of civil rights. Those people. And those people all seem to be stuck in some combination of: completely asleep at the wheel; too disorganized and busy fighting against each other over petty ideological distinctions; too busy trying to keep their heads down and scrape out a living while hoping this all goes away or somehow won’t affect them; or jumping onboard the bandwagon themselves and cheering all this stuff along.
Bonkers.