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Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0 (apnews.com)
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His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.

This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.

It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Honestly with all the stuff going on right now with laws and the constitution being violated on the federal level the real question is who would enforce that he can't run again? Sure some blue states might take him off the ballot but he probably wasn't going to win those ones anyways. He has both the supreme Court and Congress on his side right now and if he still has that in four years I could easily see him running again with no one to really stop him.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    the constitution being violated on the federal level

    What ways do you feel that the Consitution is being violated on the federal level that the courts have disregarded?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Sure the courts are doing a good job at pushing back for now but all it will take is some of these cases going to the supreme court for that to change. Both Trump and Vance have already openly said that they shouldn't have to follow judges' orders and seem to be building a case for openly defying the judiciary that's justified in the eyes of their supporters. And this is all within the first month of him being in office, it's only gonna get worse from here and by the time the next election comes around who knows what the situation will look like but I can easily see a future where he runs for election again and no one is left to stop him other than attempts by blue states.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Nobody went to prison for stealing classified documents and selling them. Nobody went to prison for accepting foreign bribes to a political campaign. Nobody went to prison for extorting Ukraine for campaign funds.

    …I could go on all day, the list of federal crimes Trump has committed is truly endless.

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