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Where does the Supreme Court get it's power? In practice, it's from the people - nor from constitution or constitutional experts.

There may come a point where some quarters of the public will willingly accept some governor, attorney general or president ignoring a supreme court ruling: then what will they do? As Andrew Jackson apocryphally noted, the supreme court has no enforcement arm.



>There may come a point where some quarters of the public will willingly accept some governor, attorney general or president ignoring a supreme court ruling

This already happened with Joe Biden ignoring the Supreme Court on abolishing student debt.


He did not ignore the Supreme Court, he got a court decision and modified the orders according to it.


This is disinformation. There are multiple instruments for students debt forgiveness - he is using workarounds that SCOTUS did not rule against to achieve the same policy result.

The supreme court shouldn't rule on policy like you suggest, but on the law.


This is not misinformation. I look forward to you providing a source that outlines the "legal" way he did it.


A claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. The burden of proof is on you: happy readings, and good day.




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