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Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error

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shevy-java · 1790262513 · focus · HN ↗
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1. philipallstar · 1790262787 · focus · HN ↗
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  1. etchalon · 1790263366 · focus · HN ↗
    Your argument is essentially that the Executive can ignore the Judicial branch, and the process of law, if they say they have a good reason.
    rootusrootus · 1790264960 · focus · HN ↗
    Perhaps the next president will wave the magic executive order wand and reduce the age of eligibility for Medicare to zero. Or something else equally spicy and very progressive. Republicans used to understand that eventually the other side will win an election and do unto you everything you have done unto them, but apparently the current crop thinks they will be ruling forever.
    krapp · 1790265641 · focus · HN ↗
    Contrary to popular belief, executive orders aren't laws and don't have the force of law. An executive order couldn't legally reduce the age of eligibility for Medicare.
    The only reason Trump gets away with it is because Congress is complicit in the authoritarian fiction of the President's "plenary authority" even to the point of obviously illegal things like undermining budget allocations and not doing their actual jobs.
    As soon as a Democrat gets in, Congress will miraculously become pedantic sticklers to the rules. This kind of corruption and blatant malfeasance is something only Republicans get away with, at least in the modern era.
    philipallstar · 1790277120 · focus · HN ↗
    > The only reason Trump gets away with it
    The reason he gets away with it is because Obama was celebrated for doing the same thing[0].
    [0] <a href="https://www.npr.org/2014/01/20/263766043/wielding-a-pen-and-a-phone-obama-goes-it-alone" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2014/01/20/263766043/wielding-a-pen-and-...
    krapp · 1790288982 · focus · HN ↗
    Bro, Obama hasn't been President for a whole decade, you can stop blaming him for things. It's OK, he had two terms, he can't hurt you anymore.
    philipallstar · 1790342839 · focus · HN ↗
    I don't know why you're talking like this, but perhaps you should go back to the kids' table for a little longer.

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