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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is attempting to overturn constitutional government in the USA.
Four sitting members of Congress from the D.C. suburbs went to the Dulles airport to demand that airport cops grant access to the people being detained, in keeping with the court order. But the airport authoritys deputy police chief refused.
Heres what this means: Donald Trumps executive branch is defying the judiciary, even with the personal, in-person assistance of national legislators. He is attempting, in part at least, to overturn constitutional government in the United States.
This is not an exaggeration. In a republic, a professional legal corps gets to interpret the law as written by the elected representatives of the people, and the agents of state violence must obey their commands. In a tyranny, the leader does whatever he wants. That is what Trump, with the close counsel of his advisers Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller, is trying to create.
http://theweek.com/articles/676724/how-president-trump-already-imperiling-constitutional-government
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)I hope the Judiciary stands up for itself
annabanana
(52,791 posts)The Courts have no army but us.
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)Then we'll be in a dictatorship and the very idea of the USA will be finished.
The courts muscle.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)congress has the power to reign in any president and until they have good enough reason, don't expect any thing to change.....an out of control admin remains out of control until WE make a change in 2018
2 long years
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Now.