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Justice Grodin on the president’s abuses of power

June 12, 2020

Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin in today’s Daily Journal lists a number of what he claims have been the president’s abuses of power that constitute a disregard for the Rule of Law.  He asserts the “evidence of [the president’s] bad faith is abundant.”

Grodin says that, “while in close cases we might be inclined to give officials the benefit of the doubt, this president’s pattern of deception and his continuing display of disregard for anyone’s interests but his own should eliminate that presumption for all but the non-objective or naïve.”

He concludes that “courts can seldom remedy abuses such as [the president’s],” but he says voters should take into account “that this president has no regard for the Rule of Law.”

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