Trump mug shot during arraignment in Georgia.
When he was president Trump stacked the Supreme Court and the Federal courts with right-wing lawyers screened and put forward by the extreme right Federalist Society, the group that generated all of his right-wing appointments to the Supreme Court, the Federal Courts, and to his own administration. That approach, top Trump operatives have decided, is not going to be enough to satisfy Trumpites if their master wins the 2024 election.
The press has reported that exchanges between the fascist Stephen Miller, who designed the program that ripped apart immigrant families, and other top Trump movers and shakers stipulate that in a second Trump administration, right-wing lawyers alone will not do the trick. What they need is lawyers willing to toss out entirely the Constitution of the U.S. in order to turn Trump into a dictator.
Specifically, they are looking for legal justification for Trump to directly take over all the federal agencies, from the Justice Department on down, and to dismantle the entire civil service system. The government will become, essentially, an army of people dedicated to Trump as the new Great Leader. The Attorney General would become Trump’s personal lawyer and public television and radio would become Trump TV and radio.
The frightening news underlines the importance of lawsuits underway in Colorado and Minnesota that aim to keep Trump off the ballot on the constitutional grounds that he led an insurrection against the U.S. government. The constitution stipulates that no one who leads an insurrection against the U.S. can hold public office.
A number of legal scholars, among them conservatives, are fully behind those efforts.
In both states citizens groups are suing to use the “Jeff Davis clause” of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment…
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