Editorials & Other Articles

and it's bleak. If Trump and his "government" ignore federal court rulings and continue to do what is prohibited and he is then held in contempt, it would be up to a US Marshal to arrest him for it. They are part of the executive branch and Trump's appointees wouldn't carry it out.

We're left to hope that Trump will hopefully not disregard a court order and will stop doing things when they say to (unlikely) or to hope that he could be removed through impeachment by Congress (never would get the necessary 67 votes in the Senate, as we've seen & it's worse now).

So, there basically isn't a mechanism to stop him short of action by the citizens in the streets, which he would likely deploy the military against - and all the lovely Jan 6th militia people.

I guess we need to throw sand in the gears, whenever possible, and hope that there are still functional elections in 2026 and 2028.

The George Conway interview (on the Bulwark) is below. It's interesting and sobering.