You shouldn't defend the president ignoring the courts

Imagine it's 2029 and President Ocasio-Cortez signs an executive order to take your guns. A court says it's an illegal order, but she says, "I don't agree with the court. I'm doing it anyway." Doesn't feel so good, now, does it?

We just got through with four years of Republicans saying, "We're a republic, not a democracy." Now all the Trump supporters are telling us it's undemocratic to resist Trump's agenda. The separation of powers is what protects your rights, including the 2nd and 1st Amendments. Without the power of judicial review, they might as well not exist.

"They're partisan liberal judges."

Okay. Let the process take its course. The decisions of partisan liberal judges can be overturned up to the Supreme Court.

"The court order is illegal."

It's for the courts to decide what is legal, not the person the law applies to or public opinion. Imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted and a bunch of BLM activists decided that court decision was illegal and took matters into their own hands by lynching him. We have to have a deliberative process, not just let whoever has the power to do it decide for themselves what's legal and what's not.

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A lot of you are saying Biden did the same thing with student loan forgiveness. No, he didn't. He didn't just ignore the Supreme Court and do it anyway. He made a new policy that forgave fewer student loans based on a different law passed by Congress. It is exactly analogous to the way that Trump made a new Muslim ban that banned fewer Muslims after his original one was struck down by the Supreme Court. That approach - changing a policy to remove the parts the Supreme Court deemed illegal - is legal and exactly how the system should work.

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/11/4/23944041/biden-student-loan-debt-relief-new-plan-scotus