As Donald Trump has made abundantly clear for most of his life, he doesn’t much care for the law when it applies to him. The one that says you gotta pay your taxes in full? No, thank you]! The ones about not ripping off charities or setting up sham universities? No and no! And don’t get him started on those pesky laws about not being allowed to discriminate against people who might want to live in your housing complex, yeesh. Since becoming president, Trump’s disdain for the rules as they apply to him has of course only gotten worse, particularly since Republicans acquitted him and sent a message that he can get away with anything he wants. Last week, for instance, he decided to intercede on behalf of his convicted criminal buddy Roger Stone, bending the Justice Department to his will (which he’s obviously been doing for some time, though now without the need to keep it hush-hush). He also lashed out at a federal judge, publicly attacking her and spreading malicious rumors about her career. And while that sort of behavior would be acceptable in an authoritarian nation—the kind Trump very clearly wishes he could bring Stateside—in the U.S. it’s actually still cause for alarm.

The Washington Post reports that the head of the Federal Judges Association has taken the “extraordinary step” of calling an emergency meeting to confront Trump’s recent actions and those of Attorney General William Barr. In a statement, Cynthia M. Rufe, the U.S. District Judge who heads the association of roughly 1,100 life-term federal judges said that the matter was urgent and “could not wait.” (According to the Post, it appears that never in its history has the group held a meeting to address the conduct of a president or his attorney general, which might have something to do with the fact that this president and his A.G. score particularly high on the Not Corrupt to Super Corrupt scale.) The call for the emergency session came shortly after more than 1,100 former Justice Department employees signed a letter calling on Barr to resign over his behavior in the Stone case.