Trump faced mounting losses this week in court on numerous fronts, both personal and presidential. An appeals court rejected Trump’s efforts to revive his defamation suit against CNN, a federal judge ruled against his deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, and another judge ruled he likely violated the law when trying to cut millions in funding to local governments unless they followed conditions related to immigration enforcement. Former White House lawyer during Trump’s first term, Ty Cobb, joins “The Weekend” to discuss.
We only have power a single day every few years under representational “democracy”. Representatives time and time again ignore the wishes of their constituents because and by design it’s too difficult to participate in the system.
Most localities have elections every year. Maybe try participating locally and you’ll start to see a difference…