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  • Oct 24, 2026, 2:19 PM

    And this current SCOTUS has already given the President a lot of leeway. The current court has shown willingness to depart from academic consensus on presidential power in favour of treating executive power as absolute.

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  • Oct 24, 2026, 2:19 PM

    Trump could also -- and this is definitely possible -- step aside a few months before leaving office in favour of Vance, who very definitely *could* pardon him for anything done in office.

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  • Oct 24, 2026, 2:19 PM

    Either way, it is clear that the US Constitution now has enough holes in it for Trump-style corruption to potentially wriggle through. As I've said several times lately, the American Century is over -- as is America itself.

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