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> If there's any one lesson to draw from the last several years, it's that the executive branch can do anything they goddamn well please.

You can agree or disagree with the goals and priorities of the Biden administration, but surely their interactions with the legislative and judicial branches demonstrate that, despite the high concentration of power there, the executive branch definitely still cannot act unchecked unilaterally.

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RunningDroid 2 days ago | parent [-]

Is this satire?

You neglected to mention the president that has been convicted of multiple felonies

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beej71 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think the immunity thing is more of an issue than any particular criminal past.

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kortilla 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is that related? The people electing someone despite their background doesn’t have any bearing on the power of the exec branch

	▲	anigbrowl a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'd suggest reading 'Mandate for Leadership' (better known as 'Project 2025') to get an ida of the intended scope of executive branch power under the incoming administration - specifically chapter 2 by Russ Vought, who has just been nominated back to his old job overseeing the Office of Management & Budget. https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL... Of course these aspirations will be challenged in court, but given recent jurisprudence I wouldn't bet on those challenges succeeding.

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JadeNB 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> You neglected to mention the president that has been convicted of multiple felonies

I took "the last several years" to refer to the currently sitting president. Even including the incoming president still illustrates the point, I think; the power he is likely to wield will come not merely because he is in the executive branch, but because the interests of the executive branch that he represents will be, in many respects, aligned with those of the legislative and judicial branches as currently constituted. (The judicial decisions nominally gave enormous immunity to the president, but it is checked by untested language that leaves unspecified, and so presumably in the hands of the judicial branch, decisions about what constitute 'core powers' of the presidency. I don't think it is likely to be successful, but I see it as very much an attempt to render the judicial branch still necessary even while essentially captured.)