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Irrelevant. The president holds all the cards, he is above the law and you are a supply chain risk if you ask anything else other than “how high” when you are told to jump. Laws or contracts are things in the past. The most a contract can do is define your limits and obligations, not your rights or privileges,

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If the president can come to your house and burn it down, do we just throw up our hands and say, well he holds all the cards, oh well. Or do we call that out as being a bad thing?

> The president holds all the cards, he is above the law

This is provably not true. The fastest way for this to become true is to believe it, or at least to parrot it, even in a facetious way.

> The president holds all the cards, he is above the law

Even though it seems that way, he really isn't, even now. Many of his EOs and other actions have been struck down in court, and while compliance with court orders has been far from perfect (another alarming trend), Trump has not actually gotten away with doing everything he wants to do.

I do fear for the future of this country, for rule of law, and the democractic norms that degrade day by day. But Trump is not actually above the law, as much as he wants to be.

You got downvoted a bit but I upvoted. You're clearly being descriptive in your statements, not prescriptive. I tend to agree that this is how things are now.

Our country is not being run by the rule of law right now.

Wrong ... their very first words were "Isn’t it actually quite fair ..."

Within the context provided…. You should consider reading the whole argument.

I wasn't speaking about the top of the chain. Merely the last couple of replies about the situation WRT how things are actually operating.

Well, that's not the way context works and it's dishonest BS. You wrote "You got downvoted a bit but I upvoted. You're clearly being descriptive in your statements, not prescriptive." -- no, they were prescriptive from the start, and the prescription and the goalpost moving and wool-over-eyes pulling is why they were downvoted.

I won't respond further.

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