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It's quite interesting how American's have always been about their government's "checks and balances" to prevent tyranny, but all it took was one person who was fine with saying, "fuck your checks and balances" to effectively create a dictatorship, and the whole government is left blabbering, "you can't do that" with no mechanism to actually do anything meaningful to remove the tyrant.
Like, I'm sure there were "checks and balances" in place for employing directors of these various governments offices, so it's almost comical that a President can just fire anyone who doesn't agree with him. I suppose it's not surprising for a country with very little worker protections, though.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Not that it actually matters, but Qualified Immunity is also against the actual laws that were passed.