The court’s ruling ordering Trump not to deport a group of Venezuelan immigrants was an unprecedented rebuke. Are they finally taking back power?

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        There are some verbal signs that Republicans are breaking. Representatives are slowly beginning to express doubts, but I’ll believe them when they actually do something

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          If he didn’t fuck over the economy, they’d still be on board. If there’s any silver lining, it’s that he’s incompetent and has surrounded himself with incompetent people. Republican congressmen and senators don’t care about the human right abuses, they care about their portfolios, which is why they have doubts now.

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        Is that how the law is supposed to work? People who break it are punished? Imagine that

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      John Marshall defined the supreme court for ~200 years. The history books will have a footnote about how John Roberts’ court ended the supremacy of the court.