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The enforcement of these laws should be a function of the executive. There are ways for the supreme court or congress to intervene when the executive isn't doing their job. Sadly that requires them to believe a series of checks and balances is necessary.

Given that it is down to the voters, and they thought a racist, rapist, conman should be president giving them the power of the executive - which has been growing increasingly powerful for my adult lifetime.

jrs235 | parent | next
It seems the only thing the supreme Court can do now days is rule if something is unconstitutional or if a last has been broken. But has no check on the executive according to the regimes arguments. The only check is for Congress to impeach and convict apparently. And there are too many demagogue followers in those changes for that to ever happen.
pclmulqdq | root | parent
The real check here is for congress to write laws that are actually specific in their text. That is hard, though, so they instead write laws that empower parts of the executive branch to do some broadly-defined thing, including the power to make the relevant rules. When you get an executive who doesn't play your game, those poorly-written laws come back to bite you.
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ncr100 | parent | next
> [voters want STRONG MAN] which has been growing increasingly powerful for my adult lifetime.

Political scientist Robert D Putnam suggests that this is in part due to the culture fragmenting and isolating.

Watch 10m video https://youtu.be/5cVSR8MSJvw?si=5NxRUnYENhfzTbXe easy interview with him from recently on that. Interesting.

ben_w | parent | next
> Given that it is down to the voters, and they thought a racist, rapist, conman should be president

And multiply-bankrupt, and (on the second term) multiply-convicted felon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_af...

Vox populi, vox Dei, but unfortunately the Deus in question is Κοάλεμος

alsoforgotmypwd | root | parent
Musk Crassus and Donald Caesar comprise a de facto duumvirate.
codeguro | parent
> Given that it is down to the voters, and they thought a racist, rapist, conman should be president giving them the power of the executive - which has been growing increasingly powerful for my adult lifetime.

It's this kind of contempt that got him elected. You have no empathy or interest in the will of the people. Maybe if you talked with some of them, you'd understand their grievances. But something tells me you'd sooner ironically prejudicially dismiss them all as racist bigots.