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.
On the contrary, they designed the constitution with exactly the kind of person like Trump in mind. They just finished fighting a revolution against a king from across the ocean and wanted be as sure as they could that their government did not function the same way. The reason they failed is because they thought Americans would be much more civically engaged than they actually are. And also because the legislative branch is terribly designed.
And don’t forget that the world of the 1700s was a much darker place than it is today. There were monarchies and brutal regimes all over the place and in very recent memory from earlier centuries as well which probably gave them all kinds of inspiration of what they wanted to prevent.