alt Hacker NewsSo, for example, if Congress says the military can require the entire domestic population to be Catholic and kill anyone who isn't... ?
That's not how it works.
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daedrdev • yesterday at 11:18 PM
Congress cannot do anything the Supreme Court says they cannot do
zahlman • yesterday at 10:48 PM
It actually is, and this is why there are separate judicial, executive and legislative branches to put those checks and balances on each other instead.
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Congress can do that, can't it? Why can't it? It could declare all competing religions as terrorist organisations.
Obviously it'd be immoral, unorthadox and impractical but I expect Congress has a long history of promoting and stamping out ideologies and they can do it. What little I know about the civil rights era springs to mind.