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Ep. 5.17.20: Above The Law; trump follows the totalitarian playbook
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:49:14
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THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Moving further down the totalitarian road, Trump indicates the law is not something he needs to be burdened by. The Justice Department throws in the towel in a game it has already won, by seeking to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn after he has twice pled guilty. This assault on the law and the US is far worse than is being portrayed (and it's not being portrayed as so great, either). This while Trump argues in the US Supreme Court that he is above the law. The fateful question is whether the Court will even bother to try to hide its naked partisanship as it engages in its naked partisanship. Also in Supreme Court news, the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case in which it will likely rule that support for slave owners is the only existing rationale for our electoral college system. (Other than the high principle of continuing to let unqualified republicans win presidential elections they have lost.) Trump declares war on Obama