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the entity making the strongest play for the power to declare the "state of exception" may be the Supreme Court, rather than Trump.

And I'm wondering if what the conservative legal movement is really after is something akin to chekism in Russia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism

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I've been singing this a lot lately ...

youtu.be/V7qclyz7plQ?...

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When you take the federal courts, and the legislature is too scared to remove you, you have a whole new deep-state-like apparatus that doesn't have an eight-year limit on power. SCOTUS just gave itself a veto over every executive branch regulation. The legal basis of its decisions in Dobbs...

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