This lawlessness flourishes, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “This lawlessness flourishes, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional…”
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Jackson warns that unchecked executive power threatens democracy.
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Significant real-world harms can follow Supreme Court stay rulings, and when the court’s orders do not acknowledge that reality, they seem oblivious and ring hollow,
To be sure, the Court has not foreclosed States from challenging this blatantly unconstitutional Order.
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Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.