Former Hogan & Lovells partner turned White House attorney Ty Cobb is back to calling out Donald Trump. Sure, the current cable news circuit regular left the hallowed halls of Biglaw to join the first Trump administration, but he quickly left. Since then he — and his signature mustache — have been a thorn in the side of Trump with a folksy way of cutting through the right-wing BS.
Appearing on MS NOW this weekend, Cobb took aim at someone besides the president. Well, to be fair, he *did* call the president “evil” and his attacks against the judiciary “one of the greatest threats to our democracy at this stage of the game,” but he reserved a good bit of his ire for the “neutered” Congress! Cobb noted that Trump “dictates everything” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does. “That’s tragic because the way the Constitution is designed, Congress, not the courts, were deemed to be the first wave of resistance to an evil president,” said Cobb.
Now that Congress “handed [Congressional power] to Trump in a basket with a bow on it, which is dangerous,” it is up to the courts to stop a unitary executive.
“The courts don’t have the ability to say what’s best for America. They can’t look at a case that way,” said Cobb. “They have to say what does the Constitution require, and the Constitution really is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump is, somebody whose desire is to accumulate and abuse power.”
By “denigrating the judiciary, Trump is basically trying to weaken one of the only remaining pillar that is standing up to prevent the total authoritarianism that he desires,” Cobb said. “And that war is very dangerous for us all. We need a very strong judiciary, particularly at this time, where the constitutional stresses are extreme and Trump’s abuses of power are unprecedented.”
Watch the full interview below.
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