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That’s because the Supreme Court has made clear the Constitution gives the president total authority over how to enforce federal law.

“We don’t have the courts like we did last time, but we still have the Constitution, we still have civil rights, we still have local laws,” Salas said.

Both measures faced legal challenges from a conservative legal group, who dropped the fight after the 1st District Court of Appeals ruled last August that the laws did not violate the California Constitution.

Consider all of that a frightening vision of our now all-too-imminent future: a president freed from the restraints of the Constitution, unchecked by Congress or the courts — or by his Cabinet advisers.

“But ultimately the federal law and federal Constitution prevail, because that's how it works.”