this rather endorses Carl Schmitt's observation that sovereignty is possessed by whoever has power to create the state of exception .. the state in which law doesn't apply. Billionaires arguably do have that power, I guess in this case delegated to them by A Certain Person.
Political Theory aside, the practical question always comes down to the policing function ('police' in the broadest sense). Who will the police obey, the court officers who ask them to enforce the order, or the people who ask them to defy the court order. In this case the police will know which side their bread is buttered on: once you give the billionaires the power to write or cancel government employees' pay checks, as A Certain Person has already done, then you've already undercut the power of any court's orders. And given you'd already packed the Supreme Court with your stooges ..
Absolutely this. I'm not sure that "the billionaires" have thought this through. They need a functioning legal system to be billionaires. But they're simultaneously tearing down the legal system....
Delicious.
this rather endorses Carl Schmitt's observation that sovereignty is possessed by whoever has power to create the state of exception .. the state in which law doesn't apply. Billionaires arguably do have that power, I guess in this case delegated to them by A Certain Person.
Political Theory aside, the practical question always comes down to the policing function ('police' in the broadest sense). Who will the police obey, the court officers who ask them to enforce the order, or the people who ask them to defy the court order. In this case the police will know which side their bread is buttered on: once you give the billionaires the power to write or cancel government employees' pay checks, as A Certain Person has already done, then you've already undercut the power of any court's orders. And given you'd already packed the Supreme Court with your stooges ..
Surely about time for a 'brace, brace'.
Absolutely this. I'm not sure that "the billionaires" have thought this through. They need a functioning legal system to be billionaires. But they're simultaneously tearing down the legal system....