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Short answer, yes.
Long answer, yes and also even if they weren’t it wouldn’t really matter.
One thing Americans are waking up to is how much of this system was based off of good actors obeying the constitution. The judicial branch is used to being respected, they are a coequal branch of the government theoretically.
We are experiencing a harsh lesson in real politics though. The Republican Party has decided that their party should win not the constitution. They are more than happy to go “some guy in a robe somewhere said we can’t do something? Fuck him”
The executive branch has the military and is just doing things. If those things are legal no longer matter.
We are currently existing in an autocracy, so rule #3 of autocracies applies
That rule 3 sounds scary af. Because it feels like we’re in the genesis of that here in the states.