All it took for Democrats to recognize that cynical or negligent leadership in the executive branch can pose a threat to the rule of law was a humiliating defeat at the hands of Donald Trump. With the former president’s return to office, suddenly evidence of presidential lawbreaking became abundant and impossible for them to ignore.
The president violated the law “on Day One” of his second term in office, said Representative Rosa DeLauro, by pardoning “hundreds of violent criminals.” He has undermined the “sacredness of our Constitution” by failing to follow proper procedure when dismissing executive branch employees, Representative Grace Meng added. The president has conducted an “illegal shakedown of the legal profession,” wrote Representative Jamie Raskin and Senator Richard Blumenthal in a public letter to the White House. “They talk just gleefully about impeaching judges they disagree with,” Senator Adam Schiff observed, which is “part of a broader assault on the rule of law, a broader effort to intimidate.”
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