Justice correspondent Elie Mystal discussed his recent article at The Nation, Trump Is Trying to Create His Own Personal Legal Strike Force, with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman.
As we discussed here, Roberts issued a rare statement after Trump called for impeaching Judge James Boasberg, saying that impeachment “is not an appropriate response.”
As Mystal rightfully noted during the interview, no one should be counting on the likes of John Roberts to save us from Trump:
AMY GOODMAN: Elie, thanks for coming back to Democracy Now! What is happening right now with this presidential attack on judges?
ELIE MYSTAL: We live in a fascist dictatorship. That’s what’s happening right now. That’s what it feels like. This is where we are. There is not a coming constitutional crisis; we are in the constitutional crisis right now. Because what do we have — how can we call ourselves a democracy, how can we call ourselves a nation of laws, if one man, and one man alone, Donald Trump, is able to defy the other two branches of government? That’s what we have here. And that’s what Trump promised to do, and that’s what he is, in fact, doing.
