Writing about what he sees as “the gravest circumstance of my lifetime,” Patrick Lawrence asserts that the political use of the judicial system will make the U.S. a “failed state.”
The efforts to use “the courts and the extremities of American law to eliminate a political candidate in the service of a Democratic president of failing competence—that is, to determine the probable outcome of an election,” he says, is the real story, not Trump’s alleged bureaucratic misdeeds.
The New York Times’ Peter Baker gets it totally backwards when he writes, “The former President’s efforts to defend against multiple felony counts by discrediting law enforcement pose a grave challenge to democracy.” Come again? “Democracy” is threatened by making statements about law enforcement operations?
