“If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it.”
False. And stupid. And slightly scary.
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Andrew Jackson took this approach—so it’s been tried. It resulted in the Trail of Tears.
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It also resulted in the first impeachment of a U.S. president.
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