Or else what? What are the courts going to do about it when their orders get ignored?
The Supreme Court has already said that anything a POTUS does in an official capacity is legal.
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Well, in a not-dictatorship, the prez voluntarily obeys court orders, and gets impeached if he dares not to. In a dictatorship, yes-men congresscritters suck up to the prez to keep their jobs.
You decide whether we live in a not-dictatorship or in a dictatorship.
Not that anything he does is legal, just that he can't be held personally legally responsible for it after leaving office.
I share your concerns, but the supreme court hasn't said the president can do anything he wants (yet).
Tomato, tomato.
Rules that lack consequences for breaking them are just suggestions.
Wherein the executive branch ignores the judicial branch effectively killing it.
All it would take is just one consequence and the house of cards would fall down. But that would require someone with a spine to actually accomplish. I don't see it happening.
Republican senators shit the bed after January 6th. That was their last realistic chance of putting a stop to the MAGA crazy train. They could've found Trump guilty at his 2nd impeachment trial without anyone blaming them for it.
Instead they gave Trump a pass and abandoned the idea of separation of powers. Since then, it's forced the Trump-packed Supreme Court to agree with them that the President is above the law and can't be checked by anyone.
Now it's too late. Congress can't hold him accountable. The courts can't. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.