In the Supreme Court’s fast approaching October term, it has agreed to hear appeals in three major cases involving some of President Trump’s most outrageous power grabs.

One addresses his effort to seize control of the independent Federal Reserve System. The second seeks to overturn the sweeping and devastating tariffs he has forced on Americans. The third challenges his arbitrary scheme to ignore both the Constitution and congressional power by refusing to spend foreign aid funds authorized and allocated by Congress.

Before Trump’s second term began, the court repeatedly shaped the law to rescue him from legal and political jeopardy. Ever since his second term began, it has done the same to protect him, his lawless actions, and his destructive policies.

The life-or-death question that now hangs over our constitutional republic is, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, how many times the court turn can its head and pretend that it just does not see. What Trump is doing is immediately apparent and blatantly unconstitutional. His individual abuses seem endless, but all they have one thing in common: they are coherent parts of his designing effort to overthrow our republican form of government and transform American democracy into American autocracy.

Trump has asserted unconstitutional powers to intimidate his opponents and assert control over virtually every significant area of American life. He has neutered Congress and wrongfully exercised

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