Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
by groestl on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:03PM
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> People voting for an elected official is different than that elected official breaking the law
Not if the elected official pledged to break the law before being elected.
> People can't vote to break the law.
That's exactly what they did.
> As far as I know, that's not how the rule of law works in representative democracies.
I fear that's also not what the US has become now.
So whether tens of millions of people voted for Trump doesn't mean Trump can just disregard law because people liked him and maybe even liked that he said he would disregard the law. As far as I know, that's not how the rule of law works in representative democracies.