Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dent of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.
Judge Wilkinson. Circuit Judge. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Before recently he wouldn’t have been prosecuted for this either. He needs to be impeached. And all the self hating liberals need to vote in the next election to turn Congress blue as the ocean.
There seem to be some oversights among the guardrails of democracy here.
“We’re asking you nicely to stop this.”
“No.”
“Don’t make us ask again. You’ve been warned.”
“Still no.”
“Alright, buster. You asked for it. We’re going to ask even more nicely!”
I think the idea is that the president would be impeached but we’ve gotten so political that no politician would dare go against the party.
Very prophetic, especially for a Reagan appointee.
Side note, people are complicated, and this guy was not a hardliner for due process:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser_Esam_Hamdi
Until recently, US Presidents could be prosecuted.
Before recently he wouldn’t have been prosecuted for this either. He needs to be impeached. And all the self hating liberals need to vote in the next election to turn Congress blue as the ocean.
Yeah, but not successfully, not a single one.
Technically, they still can be prosecuted through the impeachment process. It doesn’t seem likely to happen at the moment but still it’s possible.
Wait for Republicans to get ground in the Trump machine for a chance at impeachment
Given the probability, it might be a better investment of my time to start a snowball fighting league in Curaçao.