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Ms. Toad

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10. It is frightening - but it is a two step process.

Reply to hamsterjill (Reply #9)

Mon Aug 25, 2025, 09:18 PM

Aug 2025

The executive branch has zero authority to make laws. That's the point of separation of powers. Congress (at all levels) gets to do that.

You are correct that the Republican Congress or Republican state legislators may well do his bidding. And then we have to hope the Supreme Court (which determines whether the laws Congress makes are constitutional) holds.

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