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Will the Supreme Court constrain the wild Trump?

I wouldn’t bet on it.

Robert Reich
Feb 17, 2025
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Friends,

It is well to remind ourselves that today is Presidents Day, not Dictators Day.

Of all the things the framers of the Constitution worried about, their biggest worry was that a president would become as powerful as a king. Which is why they created Congress and the judiciary — to check and constrain him.

Fast forward to the first Gilded Age of th…

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