Trump Thread

[Husar]

That's what I was touching on in my response to your portion - executive power overriding subtle judicial arguments, and courts actively deferring to the executive in order to avoid a situation in which the executive have to choose between following onerous court orders, or explicitly rejecting them.

Sorry for rambling.

What rambling? If I misread your post, it's your duty to point that out. How else would I learn?

In your example you seem to say Lincoln acted against a court order, but the court wasn't exactly interested in ordering him to do or not do anything anyway. Then you say the courts generally try not to interfere with the executive.

So, do you agree that it is possible that noone would stop Trump from ignoring the law and potentially the constitution?
It's not just about the courts, imagine a democratic congress were to impeach him, but his crazy cabinet would back him and order the police/military not to remove him. Would that result in a coup/civil war or endless debates until his term was over anyway? And what if he'd then declare a state of emergency and postponed the elections? Would all the California hippies pick up their AR-15s and march on Washington?

These are hypotheticals of course, but I'm not entirely sure how disinterested courts figure into this other than that they might make it even easier for him.