• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The US Marshals enforce court orders. The judges are powerless on their own and that’s by design.

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      4 months ago

      If a portion of the government wholly stops listening to a part of the government that has authority over it, they call it a coup.

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        4 months ago

        Nah it’s just a Constitutional Crisis. But we’ve been through this drill before. As long as you only ignore one or two key rulings it’s pretty mild.

        Our branches of government are supposed to keep each other from going too far. It’s literally in the system design documents.