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.
A) The Constitution is perfectly capable of dealing with someone like Trump, but the our elected officials are too cowardly and self-interested to use it to remove him from power.
B) Our extremely partisan Supreme Court is undermining the clear and well defined restrictions placed on the presidency by the Constitution. Again, the Constitution has remedies for this, but the cowards who are deeply entrenched in our seats of power refuse to use them.
C) No one with this facial hair should be treated seriously (with the exception of Santa Claus).
It is not. The document nor, the founders foresaw something like Citizens United which makes voting useless. So long as there is unlimited money in elections, then the system is failed.