cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17119069

“In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law,” warned Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Usually they’d have to refuse an illegal order, but as any official act of the president is explicitly legal, such things no longer exist.