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Please respond to ONE of the following prompts. After posting your discussion, review your classmates’ posts and choose at least one to reply to. Option 1 – Module Analysis: What were the most interesting or surprising things you learned while doing the readings and viewing the videos? What specific material from this module do you think is most important to remember, and why? What material from the module are you still feeling fuzzy about and would like clarification on? Option 2 – Trump-Roberts Dispute Over Judicial Independence: Having read the article, Trump Hits Back at Chief Justice Roberts, provide your perspective. Is Trump’s thinking more accurate, that we have a judiciary full of Trump judges and Obama judges and Biden judges, etc., who basically interpret the law according to the preferences of the president who nominated them? Or is Roberts’ understanding more correct, that we have a truly independent judiciary not beholden to any political master or political movement? Try to separate your analysis from your opinion of Trump, in general. He’s hardly the first person to express such a realpolitik view of the judiciary, although he is the first president to do so publicly. Option 3 – Judicial Review: Analyze judicial review. Where did this power come from? In what ways might judicial review serve as a useful check against presidential power? In what ways might judicial review give undue power to the courts?