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		ceejayoz 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD als... Similarly, the Holocaust was legal under German law, because the Führer willed it so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip Thus illustrating the potential gap between legal and moral.

saubeidl 15 days ago [–]

The Führerprinzip mentioned here, by the way, is basically the same argument the conservative supreme court is making right now.

They call it Unitary executive theory in the States, but same idea.

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