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  • The problem is it's not clear who could enforce a judgment on him. If DC police tried to arrest him, they wouldn't get through the door. Him being president makes it very difficult, as a practical matter, to actually punish him in any way.

  • It's worth noting here that the President, as per the supreme Court, is immune from all prosecution if his actions result from the scope of his duties. It would be trivial for Trump to argue that deporting everybody he doesn't like is within the scope of his duties, whether it's lawful or not. That's the unique danger we face right now: a combination of a strong man and a uniquely deferential SCOTUS. It's never happened in American history.

  • A lot of the people he wants to deport are people claiming asylum because the country they come from is too dangerous to be in. Letting those people stay here while they plead their case is one of our lawful treaty obligations. Rounding them up and summarily deporting them is not enforcing the law it's abrogating the law.

  • I'm kind of confused about exactly how this could escalate further, given that there are at least two countries between Iran and Israel. Israel isn't going to send ground forces into Iran, and vice versa. And I'm doubtful that as bad as Israel is, they would nuke Iran. Where could it go beyond intermittently bombing each other?