Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Catoggio
“Due process in the federal justice system depends on many players. … if you want to get rid of it and fully weaponize the justice system, you need to undermine all of the players involved, not just one or two. … To collapse the structure of American justice and replace it with a proper banana republic, each pillar holding it up needs to be weakened. The president spent most of his first two months in office focused on a single pillar: law enforcement. … If all Trump wants to do is harass his enemies, weaponizing law enforcement will suffice. But if he’s after something more robustly caudillo-esque, the other pillars of due process will also have to yield. This weekend he began to discredit them more aggressively.” (03/17/25)