US Politics
A President's War on the Bench: Trump's Assault on Judicial Independence and Why It Matters
President Donald Trump publicly attacked the Supreme Court for rejecting his administration's last-minute push to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections, claiming Justices who ruled against him were not the people he interviewed. This reprehensible assault on the independence of the judiciary, from a President who views his legal appointees as personal vassals, represents a chilling erosion of foundational democratic norms.
