• cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Sanders’ EOs with a conservative Supreme Court would have been unilaterally nullified. The conservative supermajority is what has allowed Trump to get away with the vast majority of this.

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      1 year ago

      Sanders’ EOs with a conservative Supreme Court would have been unilaterally nullified.

      If they’d run Sanders, they’ve had ended up with a Democratic supermajority. SCOTUS would have been largely irrelevant.

      But it doesn’t change facts. The powers of the presidency in the hands of an actual reformer, not a performative one like Biden or Obama, would have entailed true, fundamental change.