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Doesn't the EO apply specifically to the executive branch? How is this marginalizing the judicial branch?


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ceejayoz02/19/2025

In the famous Frost/Nixon interviews:

> "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

If the President orders the exec branch to ignore the courts on this argument, he hasn’t ordered the judges to do anything, but he is fucking with their power nonetheless.