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Except that the president can literally just not enforce it. Andrew Jackson did it. He said fuck the Supreme Court lemme see them try to enforce that ruling. And they couldn't. And then he went on his merry way with some good, old-fashioned native slaughtering because the Executive Branch has plenary executive power. That's why it's called the Executive Branch. Plenty of presidents have done it. Obama did it with weed. That law is still in existence and is still not being enforced. If the chief law enforcement officer doesn't want to enforce the law he doesn't have to. That's how the republic works. The veto power is not the primary power separation between Congress and the Executive branch. I mean I'm not really here to debate legal fact. I took Constitutional Law in law school, I'm not stating my opinion. All executive branches of any republic have the power to not enforce laws that they think are unconstitutional or simply don't like. That is the check on Congress's power. Think about it. If there was only one police officer, would he arrest himself if Congress passed a fucked up law? Nope. The way you are describing it, Congress would be able to completely control the country with a supermajority party. They could pass a law saying the president goes to prison for doing his job and he would have to go to prison for existing. But, with the way it actually works, if this did get passed after a veto, the president would simply not enforce the law.

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Yeah but that’s a whole different issue than separation of powers. “Not enforcing something” is not written into the constitution anywhere. It’s just that the DOJ doesn’t care enough or is too lazy to actually do anything about it. Technically it shouldn’t happen. Sometimes it’s a good thing that it happens, sometimes not. But “not enforcing something”has no codified part in our government

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It is though, it is in article 2 section 1. The Constitution vests executive power in the president. The founders and every lawyer in this country knows what that clause means. You don't. There were hundreds of years of legal and political development in Europe from the 1200s till America was founded. They had classical educations and intentionally gave the president executive power as a check against the legislative and judicial branches. You're just uneducated.