Robert Reich (RBReich): Trump is an 'American dictator,' and courts must push back | Opinion
Americans have sharply different views on what government should do about abortion, guns, immigration and other hot-button issues. But we broadly agree on how government should go about resolving our differences.
His directive to his lapdog attorney general William Barr to find evidence of “treason” against specific people who investigated him, along with Barr’s assertion of “no limit” on the president’s authority to direct law enforcement investigations, including those he’s personally interested in, threatens the neutrality of our entire system of justice.
Trump’s angry references to “Obama judges” who rule against him calls into question the independence and legitimacy of the judiciary. Impeachment is the appropriate remedy for a president who acts like a dictator. But according to polls, most of the public opposes impeachment. I think that’s because in these especially perilous times, impeachment threatens to pull the system further apart, possibly to the breaking point. President Donald Trump gestures onboard a Japanese helicopter carrier on May 28 in Yokosuka, Japan. Robert Reich calls Trump an"American dictator" who is attacking the U.S.
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