alt Hacker News> and if it goes beyond the scope of executive powers, it will be curtailed or shut down.
The position of the executive order is that only the President can interpret laws, including executive orders about interpreting laws.
That is to say, if the courts try to stop it, Trump may try to say "the courts don't have that power" and order the DoJ and/or military to block anything they do.
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derektank • last Wednesday at 8:56 AM
>Trump may try to say "the courts don't have that power" and order the DoJ and/or military to block anything they do.
Perhaps we should refrain from calling the US a de facto dictatorship until that point then?
That is not what the EO says. You’ve been misled by a Reddit post.