Jim Teeth: I don’t think it’s possible for Democrats to win the House, Senate and Presidency, but should they do so they have to expand the Court and bring this back for review. As we now understand precedent is a quaint tradition and courts are not beholden to it. The law is what today’s SCOTUS decides.

i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready, Sirwww.nytimes.com The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.

Roberts, Alito and Thomas all cut their teeth in a Reagan administration eager to expand the outer limits of executive power. Kavanaugh did the same under George W. Bush who tried to make the unitary executive a reality.

I don’t think it’s possible for Democrats to win the House, Senate and Presidency, but should they do so they have to expand the Court and bring this back for review. As we now understand precedent is a quaint tradition and courts are not beholden to it. The law is what today’s SCOTUS decides.

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