Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens just accused Trump of abusing the powers of his office

Thanks to the unprecedented act of obstruction by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the last year of the previous administration by blocking consideration of President Obama’s nominee, President Trump has managed to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing allies who are likely to fall in line with whatever outrageous policies he intends to try to implement.

However, any of the president’s most egregious behavior that his newly installed cronies on the Supreme Court may overlook will not escape the attention of the retired former justices of the court who as private citizens are free to weigh in with their educated opinions about Trump’s actions and how they relate to the Constitution.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens did just that this week, raising an alarm that President Trump is “exercising powers that do not really belong to him” and that there are “things we should all be concerned about” in an interview he gave to The Wall Street Journal.

The now 99-year-old former justice believes that Trump is venturing into waters dangerous to our democracy by attempting to exercise powers that are far beyond those granted by the Constitution. Read more

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