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Legally can state governors do anything if trump and Elon don’t comply with the courts? Is it possible that this constitutional crisis spins out of control and starts a civil war?
Comment by bl1y at 14/02/2025 at 18:55 UTC
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Legally can state governors do anything if trump and Elon don’t comply with the courts?
What they can do is try to insulate themselves from federal government decisions. In a nutshell, be less reliant on the federal government.
Is it possible that this constitutional crisis spins out of control and starts a civil war?
No. What are you imagining exactly? A *federal* judge issues an order which the President ignores, so a *state* governor decides to call up the National Guard in order to march on DC and enforce the ruling?
No, that's not going to happen.
But what is very likely to happen is that in 4 years when Trump is out of office, all the people saying we're definitely headed to a civil war will suddenly rewrite history and say they meant a *cold* civil war without any fighting, and by "civil war" they meant "firing a bunch of bureaucrats."
Comment by thewerdy at 14/02/2025 at 18:17 UTC
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Legally? Legally nothing really matters anymore since the enforcement is largely decided by the executive branch, which is currently being purged to ensure only loyalists remain, and their specific qualification will be a willingness to ignore courts and do what the President tells them to.
Is it possible that this constitutional crisis spins out of control and starts a civil war?
Yes.
Comment by [deleted] at 13/02/2025 at 05:30 UTC*
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