"The laws of England are at my commandment. Blessed are they that have been my friends, and woe to my Lord Chief Justice!"
Though Trump-as-Falstaff-intended is, I'm sure, what Trump intends, the US is odd, legally from a Canadian perspective.
The states have a lot more independence and power and - even recently, even with this Supreme Court, in decisions benefitting blue states - conservative lawyers tend towards upholding states' rights. You're more likely to have a patchwork where rule of law functions, if with a few more fireworks than usual, in blue states, and gets sidelined in red states.
That being said, I expect that the next four years will see the first successful claim to convention refugee status by someone from the States on the basis of a well-founded fear of persecution on political grounds, further strengthening the "America is a third world country" view already raised when talking about things like infant mortality.
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Date: 2024-11-17 01:49 pm (UTC)"The laws of England are at my commandment. Blessed are they that have been my friends, and woe to my Lord Chief Justice!"
Though Trump-as-Falstaff-intended is, I'm sure, what Trump intends, the US is odd, legally from a Canadian perspective.
The states have a lot more independence and power and - even recently, even with this Supreme Court, in decisions benefitting blue states - conservative lawyers tend towards upholding states' rights. You're more likely to have a patchwork where rule of law functions, if with a few more fireworks than usual, in blue states, and gets sidelined in red states.
That being said, I expect that the next four years will see the first successful claim to convention refugee status by someone from the States on the basis of a well-founded fear of persecution on political grounds, further strengthening the "America is a third world country" view already raised when talking about things like infant mortality.