Constitutional matters

It seems the applicability of the US Constitution now relies on a single US Supreme Justice, Barrett.

In the most recent judgement she cast the deciding vote to restrict the actions of Trump's Executive Branch.

In the UK, power comes from The Crown. THe Government and Parliament wields the power that The Crown lets them, power is thus wielded in The Crown's Name rather than Parliament or even The King.

In the US, power comes from The Constitution, the founding Fathers cleverly splitting power between The President, The Senate and the Judicary. One checks and balances the other, in that usually The Senate approves The Executives actions, and on occasion, The Judicary decides whether those actions are legal and/or within the Constitution.

In normal times, the Executive would ceed to the Power and decisions of the other two branches of Government.

But what happens when the Executive try to wield power, absolute power, by decree?

Again, some of those decrees might be constitutional, some might not be, and the Senate and/or the Supreme Court would decide.

But the GOP is now a Death Cult, sowrn to support Trump, or else, and the Supreme Court has been rigged by the same GOP to load it with not just Conservative minded judges, but ones with clear loyalty to Trump.

Any constitutional, writted, codified or not, is only as strong as the checks and balances on those who wield power.

If the Government does not follow decisions by the Supreme Court, then why should ordinary citizens?

Latest nes is that Trump "thinks" that the treaty that defined the US/Canada border isn't valid, and is minded to annex Canadian territory, like Russia did in Ukraine.

Trump has begun a trade war with Canada. Then stopped it. Then doubled down and multiplied them.

He cannot be trusted.

This it was always the way.

If Trump and JD Vance were Russian agents, their actions would be no different to what we see day after day.

We are cursed to live in yet more interesting times.