Laurence Tribe: If Garland doesn’t prosecute Trump, the rule of law is “out the window”
What is the role of the rule of law in stopping fascism and authoritarianism in the United States?
It is the only alternative to anarchy and chaos and violence.
Eminent constitutional law expert: If Biden and Garland won’t go after Trump, country is in “desperate trouble”
President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland are not acting with the necessary urgency.
The Supreme Court is no longer calling “balls and strikes,” as the cliché holds. It is putting a fist on the scales of justice in favor of the far right. This is by design: Donald Trump and the Jim Crow Republicans packed the court, essentially for that purpose.
“The Taliban, all of them together, plus every Al Qaeda fighter in the world, do not pose the threat to the United States that Trump or Trumpist extremists do.”