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What a beautiful message of unity from an obviously very sane, intelligent and rational man. Happy Easter

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He insulted Supreme Court judges? Holy shit, doesn't the US have a Contempt of Court law or something? I haven't seen something this deranged in my entire life that wasn't in a history textbook.
- He’s been mocking them almost daily. The White House posted this a couple days ago. The meeting with the El Salvador dictator was also mocking the Supreme Court.
  
  This is the shit the behaviourally challenged adolescent boys in my kids middle school would contrive.
  Aim high, USA.
  
  Well, I've blocked US political stuff, so I didn't see this. Unbelievably petty. In India, while the country is definitely fascist, it would still be very difficult to mock the court so provocatively -- even criticising SC decisions is rare, because the courts are still relatively powerful. Though I think in the US the executive appoints judges. Then it's not surprising at all.
  
  If you read about Indian constitution, this is extremely well designed. So even a fascist government is limited in what it can do.
  
  No liberal measure can really stop a fascist government, though. The judiciary in India is immensely powerful, but still somewhat influenced by local governments. There was a judge who, somewhat infamously, joined the BJP right after his retirement--this has never happened in Indian history. The Weimar Constitution, in theory, was the most democratic constitution with independent institutions and separation of powers. A constitution is only as good as those who interpret it. Even the guy who was the head of the Constituent Assembly famously said that he'd rather burn the document if it failed to protect minorities.
  
  Of course constitution isn't final, for example if 70% of people one day say they reject the constitution.
  Still while constitution is in force and separation of power exists, even government lead by hindutwa fundamentalists with popular support in a country where most if not almost all think religion is super important, can't dare go against constitution and change it to their liking (it needs 2/3 majority and still most fundamental aspects are immutable). Compare this to the mess the idiot US president is making. To do something similar the Indian government needs to make clever acts, to find loopholes and to abuse detective agencies.
  The most dangerous thing going against the constitutional nature is UAPA which is a sedition act and is very much abused.

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