#presidential-accountability

#presidential-accountability

Near the end of his opinion in Trump v. United States, Chief Justice John Roberts chastises the dissenting justices for "ignoring the Constitution's separation of powers" and "fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals" that imagine a future ruled by a lawbreaking president. He might as well have called them hysterical. Among their fears: a world where the commander-in-chief orders the armed forces to assassinate a political opponent or critic,

CEDs can readily be used as instruments of torture; they are designed to control through incapacitation, but also through inflicting pain. These devices have no legitimate place in the Santa Clara County prison system. I encourage fellow citizens to write to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and speak forcefully against the deployment of CEDs in the prison system.

Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for, well, reporting on Trump. Rather than charging the Times with any specific libelous act, Trump's lawsuit is just another of his angry bloviations. The lawsuit says he's moving against one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party. And so on.