No Kings, No Tyrants. Not Ever.

So, I’m confused. We are now told daily, almost hourly, that the courts have no authority to tell the president “no,” that they have no authority to halt or even limit his actions. Republicans are screaming this from every pulpit and newsroom. And yet I am old enough to remember when these same Republicans ran whining to the courts every time a Democratic president did something they didn’t like. Which was, to be honest, anything. Republicans ran to the courts over the Affordable Care Act MULTIPLE times. They ran to the courts over immigration issues. They ran to the courts over the 2020 election. They ran to the courts over Biden’s efforts to cancel student debt. And on and on and on. How many times did Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton sue the Obama and Biden administrations? Clearly, Republicans thought the courts had some authority to constrain a president in the exercise of his power. When did that change? Is it only Democratic presidents the courts have the authority to limit? Are Republican presidents exempt from judicial review? Or is your party simply being hysterical hypocrites? This is obscene. The courts have exercised this power since Marbury vs. Madison, and they have, at least in the past, exercised it against presidents of both parties. Your guy isn’t exempt. He’s not a king; he doesn’t rule by divine right. Your party used to call Obama and Biden “tyrants.” Now, though, you seem dead-set on making Trump a tyrant. And that is unacceptable. No kings. No tyrants. Not ever.