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avalys • 02/19/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

What’s the solution you have in mind? Anyone in the Executive branch can interpret the law for themselves and disobey an order if they believe they have a legal basis to do so?

That would be completely paralyzing.


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wnoise • 02/19/2025

Yes.

It would be completely paralyzing were the executive largely staffed with those that wanted to paralyze it. Usually that's not the case.

I don't think that'd be case unless the orders were completely outrageous, in which case, yes, we absolutely want them disobeyed until adjudication could happen.

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3vidence • 02/20/2025

That is why federal workers and the military swear an oath to the constitution of the united states.