Slate - "The Law Alone Won't Save Us from Donald Trump". Good read. Call to Action.

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/07/lawyers_and_the_constitution_alone_won_t_save_us_from_donald_trump.html

Lawyers Aren’t Wizards

There’s no magic legal spell to remove Donald Trump from office. Americans are just going to have to stand up and fight his abuses of power.

By Dahlia Lithwick

The pattern is so familiar that it almost starts to feel rational. Nearly every day, for the six-month slog that has been the Donald Trump presidency, it’s gone like this: The president or someone in his administration does something previously unthinkable, then legal pundits take to Twitter and the airwaves to ponder whether it was legal or constitutional or criminally prosecutable.

Can the president truly continue to enrich himself and his family by leveraging his office to benefit from foreigners? Can the president really fire the FBI director and admit he was thinking about the Russia probe while doing it? Can the president leak classified information to the Russians in the Oval Office? Can the president’s son take a meeting with Russians who are promising dirt on Hillary Clinton? Can he do that with multiple campaign advisers in the room? Can the president’s son-in-law attend such a meeting and still retain his security clearance?

Today, we have a new set of questions to toss on the pile: Can the president really pardon himself and all his friends, family, neighbors, and pets, plus fire Robert Mueller, plus threaten his attorney general?

More often than not, the answer, as it has been since the Merrick Garland blockade in the Senate, is: “norms, not laws.”

While there may or may not be specific constitutional or statutory bulwarks that prohibit what the president does every day, each time we take to the rabbit holes and alleyways to chase them down, the formal answer is either a lawyerly “it depends” or an even more lawyerly “it depends what the courts will say.”

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Ends with this

"What is increasingly clear is that Trump’s lawlessness isn’t a problem to be solved by other people’s attorneys. Like it or not, we are all public interest lawyers now."

[Atticus]

1. Amen. To one and all: "What are you prepared to do?" nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. absol-fucking-lutely. What are we all prepared to do?

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. There's always this!