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Its a general posture. Amazon is an industrial powerhouse and Trump has signaled that he can and will attack his political opponents no matter how rich they are. If he wants to, Trump may actually nationalize Amazon; the alternative is presumably becoming his toady.

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See "the steel cases". The POTUS cannot unilaterally nationalize any businesses.

See Dobbs and Loper Bright, past precedent previously viewed as solid and well-established is no guarantee of future outcomes with this Court.

Or Brown vs. Board of Education. The courts can change their minds once in a while. There are no indicia that this court wants to overturn the steel cases.

More context? A search on Google doesn't bring anything useful to me.

My googling turned up this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._...

The current Supreme Court has been pretty clear that there is no such thing as settled case law anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952951

> The current Supreme Court has been pretty clear that there is no such thing as settled case law anymore

It's always been the case. That's how Supreme Court works.

Trump has signaled he will get the military involved against his opponents. And people are still going to vote for him.

When did Trump threaten to nationalize any business ? His argument has always been for the opposite.

His behavior has been he’ll do whatever he wants; he has almost no consistent political positions.

AFAICT, while he has threatened extreme and unconstitutional retaliation against businesses (e.g., pulling broadcast licenses and jailing journalists for unfavorable coverage) [0] if he wins, he has not specifically threatened nationalization.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-thr...

Fair enough. Though I wouldn't put it past him.

That’s the bar now?

"Trump has signaled that he can and will attack his political opponents"

You write this, apparently sincerely, as if the other side of politics do not and will not attack their political opponents.

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