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ceejayoz02/19/20252 repliesview on HN

You forget the VPOTUS is openly doubting the courts’ authority to rule on these things.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx3j5k63xo.amp


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trothamel02/20/2025

A court can't issue an order to an army to surrender. A court can't force the president to nominate someone to be a federal judge.

There are some powers the executive has that can't be overruled by the courts. Now the question is - what?

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giantg202/20/2025

The examples in that article are legitimate examples. The more concerning part in that article is the suggestion of not following court rulings such as the myth of Andrew Jackson's SCOTUS quote.