It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
Trump’s prosecution order to Bondi gives up the pretense. And the country is headed swiftly into unknown territory.
But here we are. The Justice Department is being destroyed—slowly at first, and now all at once. Most of the lawyers in the Civil Rights Division have left or are leaving. Ditto the Federal Programs Branch, the office that’s supposed to defend an administration’s claims in court. Reuters confirmed in July that 69 of 110 lawyers in that branch were skedaddling. The exodus figure for civil rights back in May was a similar 70 percent.
trump is working hard to consolidate all power within the Executive Branch. He is steadily removing descent and any obstacles in his way.