Robert Reich, the man responsible for creating and maintaining a middle class in America, says President Trump is abusing his constitutional authority by attacking the judiciary.
Reich, a well-liked former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, says President Trump is setting the ground for his own impeachment by attacking the foundations of the separation of powers in the Constitution.
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He says that one way dictators take over democracies is by threatening the independence of a nation’s courts. Donald Trump is doing just this.
Alternet reports:
By Robert Reich
Connect the following dots:
1. In January, Trump blasted a federal judge for staying his travel ban. “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” he tweeted.
2. In February, after the judge made the stay permanent, Trump issued a veiled threat: “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!”
3. Last week, after another federal judge issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s travel ban, Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, said, “I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power.”
4. On Tuesday, after another federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a threat to take away funds from sanctuary cities, the White House issued a statement condemning the judge as “unelected.” The statement charged “this San Francisco judge’s erroneous ruling is a gift to the criminal gang and cartel element in our country, empowering the worst kind of human trafficking and sex trafficking, and putting thousands of innocent lives at risk. This case is yet one more example of egregious overreach by a single, unelected district judge.”
5. On Wednesday, Trump said he was considering breaking up the court of appeals for the 9th Circuit, in which these three federal judges hear and decide cases. “There are many people who want to break up the 9th Circuit,” he said. “It’s outrageous.” The 9th Circuit Court covers Arizona, California, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington and Hawaii, as well as Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Eighteen of the court’s 25 judges were appointed by Democratic presidents.
It is the job of the Justice Department to provide a reasoned case for overruling a federal judge’s decision. In condemning individual judges and threatening to break up the court of appeals instead, Trump is attacking the foundations of the separation of powers in the Constitution.
This assault on the federal judiciary is an abuse of Trump’s constitutional authority – yet another ground for impeachment.
Robert B. Reich has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. His latest book is “Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.” His website is www.robertreich.org.
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utter nonsense!
People should understand that this man doesn’t stand for freedom. Every one of his messages, enticing though they are, is designed to subvert your thinking and comes from absolutely the WRONG side. Like many others, the world would be a better place were he not spouting his well-disguised poison.
As Secretary of Labor under the Clinton Regime, Reich never opposed or objected to the policy of giving tax breaks to the corporate elite parasites which led to stagnating wages for the middle class workers with corporate executives earning 400 times more than the lowest paid workers in Corporatons. But it was his support for NAFTA that finally gutted what was left in manufacturing and his luke warm support for Unions. Trillions wasted for the Military Industrial Security Complex with the Iraq wars and the bombing of Yugoslavia, phony war on terror, this is the reality that ruined the middle class. Reich is just another Neo-Liberal con artist!
Reich. You are an angry & stupid dumbass
Respectfully, you Monica are the angry & stupid Dumbass. Wake up! Don’t you know anything about anything? Open your eyes and clear a path in your life to come down from bullshit mountain. You’ve obviously been up there on your high horse for far too long. If you knew anything you’d know that Robert Reich was the Secretary of Labor during the Bill Clinton Administration. You know, when America was a Surplus! ‘NOUGH SAID!
Just another pie hole for the deep state!