And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If he truly is the first to do this, and it works, he won't be the last. Every President from here on will also file on the day of their inauguration. It's a brilliant move and it tells you that he is surrounded by smart people reading every last word in every law. That bodes well for everything else he's trying to do, it means far fewer opportunities for the courts to overturn his actions if his team knows what they are doing.
If he truly is the first to do this, and it works, he won't be the last. Every President from here on will also file on the day of their inauguration. It's a brilliant move and it tells you that he is surrounded by smart people reading every last word in every law. That bodes well for everything else he's trying to do, it means far fewer opportunities for the courts to overturn his actions if his team knows what they are doing.
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