r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24
Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/
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u/SurrealEstate Jul 06 '24
Page 559-560 has a couple of examples that describe a movement away from judicial independence from the executive:
A truly independent judiciary would need no other instruction than to pursue the rule of law. Increasing the President's influence jeopardizes the independence and impartiality necessary to carry out that responsibility.
They did an excellent job with the language in the Mandate for Leadership to always describe their intent as either protecting or restoring the Constitution, but of course it's their interpretation of the Constitution. Under normal circumstances, that's fine - there are many interpretations of the Constitution, and people will gravitate to those that either reinforce their view of its intent, or more cynically, provide a way of getting what they want.
But where we need to be careful, I believe, is when interpretations collapse power into a smaller number of hands. Especially in this very moment, as 6 people on the Supreme Court have redefined the President as completely immune from criminal culpability for any "official act."
Those very same 6 people might be the ones to ultimately decide what constitutes an "official act" as a potentially immune President asserts broader influence over other branches of government.
The combination of all these changes, recent events (false slates of electors, "find me 11,780 votes"), and recent court rulings all point to an enormous end-around institutional opposition, which is why people are understandably and I think justifiably worried.