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It would be very unlikely the Supreme Court would rule for Congress in this dispute, as it would set a precedent that a future Congress could investigate it.

 

Sad that we're down to that being what protects the Constitution, isn't it?

 

It's how the Founders envisioned political conflict when they wrote the thing. It was their assumption that the three branches of government would exist in a perpetual tension in which they'd defend their own rights as a first principle, thus preventing any one branch from gaining too much power over the other two. It's often said that the Founders never envisioned political parties, but that can't be true, as they were already long established in Great Britain. I think what's more true is that they never envisioned the USA being governed by any but the men of property/unusually learned for the time elite they were.

 

Except those founders didn’t foresee members of a branch putting loyalty to party over loyalty to the separation of powers. So counting on SCOTUS to choose their self-interests over those of the current GOP is risky.

 

For all its foresight , the Constitution was originally bereft of at least one bit of direction: presidential succession. All those great minds looked at their work and presumably asked, “Hey, guys. Have we left anything out?” And they said, “Nah. We’re good.”

 

Presidential election, too. They didn't foresee the Jefferson-Burr tie of 1800, leading to the 12th Amendment.

 

Or Mighty Merrick decides he should should order all DOJ operatives to comply with each and every request of the committee, so as to avoid the slightest little hint of political favoritism. Such a gesture of goodwill could bring a tidal wave of unity from right wing media.

 

Yeah, the original arrangement, which had the runner-up in the election become vice-president and thus have a direct personal incentive for the president to become dead, was not a real good idea. Remember that any time anybody says the founding fathers who wrote the constitution were eternal geniuses.

 

Brazilian Congress getting overrun today.

 

Keep talking shit, ratface. You won by 500 votes this time, you won't win in 2024.

 

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