President Donald Trump has activated the military on U.S. streets, attempted to oust a Federal Reserve board governor and threatened to prosecute his political opponents — all in the past few weeks.
Trump is testing the limits of presidential authority at a steady clip. And some of his opponents fear that with a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, not even the courts will stop the president from overreach.
“The federal appeals courts have also been deciding against Trump overwhelmingly, in something like around 70% of the cases,” Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland told NOTUS. “But when you get to the Supreme Court, which has been sliced and diced and gerrymandered by Republicans, we have a serious problem. And that’s where the court has been slicing the baloney very fine, to allow Trump to get away with a lot of unprecedented usurpation of power.”