Eric Spiegelman
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Eric Spiegelman
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The Trump argument is that Congress would stop him if it disagreed with what he is doing. The law works differently at the Constitutional level. Conditions on the President are functionally useless if there's no enforcement of them.
February 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Federal candidates didn't run on it because feds don't run police departments. Cities do. And a lot of city candidates ran on it. The Republican line was "Democrats are destroying our cities." Which resonated, as you can tell by the NYT 2024 map of every major city.
February 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM