We are witnessing slow constitutional collapse in the US | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : This was already a degradation of democracy: the unelected judges came to have far too much influence over federal policy.
53% : And the judges were not the neutral, non-ideological referees that they claimed to be: many interpreted the law to be maximally deferential to the whims of the powerful and only minimally respectful to the rights of the less powerful.
41% : Indeed, the judiciary itself seemed more than willing to share in democratically unaccountable power with the president, so long as that president was a Republican: it declared last year that the executive was immune from almost all criminal prosecution, thereby carving out a category of person - Donald Trump - to whom federal criminal law mostly does not apply.
40% : The Women's Marches attracted millions, and crowds swarmed the airports to lend support to travelers from the countries that Trump had targeted with his Muslim ban.
24% : On the Sunday talkshows last week, the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer was asked about the administration's attacks on institutions of higher education, which have lost federal funding as the regime attempts to restructure their curricula and faculties.

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