The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” | The national-security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

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https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal

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In theory the Executive Branch should be kept in check by the threat of removal from office by the Legislative Branch

i believe we're seeing the failure of our system of checks and balances in real time. there can be no check or balance against the branch that's in charge of executing the legislation and the judicial rulings. that branch holds all of the police and military power. they win.

the only recourse is, uh, revoking the social contract.

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The founding fathers wrote many papers about how if our government wasn’t controlled by white wealthy land owning men it would all crumble especially if two distinct ideologically opposed groups formed. Our govt is based on being a negotiation between wealthy individuals not a democracy. The checks and balances are based on there not being these factions and the rich guys coming together to reprimand their own when they go too far. We’ve needed a new form of govt for decades now because the current system is not up to the task. Sadly we’ll keep running the same playbook written by evil men hundreds of years ago because we treat the constitution like it’s the Bible