NYT downplaying again:
"In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative
Scholars say that President Trump and his administration are now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end."
FLIRTING with lawless defiance? He's not flirting, he's blatantly defiant, knowing they won't do a damned thing about it. And it's a very certain end...the end of democracy in this country.
@Wileymiller it's important to emphasize that no, there's not much the court can do because it's the wrong branch of government: it's Congress, not the Court, that's authorized to, and accountable to voters for, doing what they determine is needed with regard to the executive.
This isn't the end of democracy in the country. It IS democracy in the country. We elected congresspeople who are enabling all of this, so democracy is guiding this whole thing.
@Wileymiller If you're talking about the US system, you have that backwards.
The US system emphatically and actively is designed to keep that kind of authority away from the courts. We don't give the courts that authority to override democratic processes.
And so enforcing court orders is emphatically left to the Congress. We elect the people that we want to handle that enforcement.
This is a core part of separation of powers in the US system.
@volkris
Enforcing court orders is the jurisdiction of the judiciary, not Congress.