If you speak of the king…
4 min readFeb 23, 2019
In my previous article about Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, I expressed concerns over my country’s lurching into authoritarian rule, while acknowledging that we have systemic protections that hold us back from that disaster. One such defense is our separation of powers — or that is supposed to be a defense, though Congress during this century has shirked the duty to be a co-equal branch. And now a sitting justice of the Supreme…