Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said Sunday that his former client’s repeated attacks on the federal judiciary are “one of the greatest threats to our democracy at this stage of the game” and likely to result in a significant erosion of freedom in the United States.
Cobb was a guest MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” and he warned that Congress has been “neutered” by its collective cowardice and “ceded basically all control” to the executive branch.
“That’s tragic because the way the Constitution is designed, Congress, not the courts, were deemed to be the first wave of resistance to an evil president.”
Congress “has greater powers than the president,” Cobb added, but has “handed it to Trump in a basket with a bow on it, which is dangerous.”
“The courts don’t have the ability to say what’s best for America. They can’t look at a case that way,” he explained. “They have to say what does the Constitution require, and the Constitution really is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump is, somebody whose desire is to accumulate and abuse power.”
By “denigrating the judiciary, Trump is basically trying to weaken one of the only remaining pillar that is standing up to prevent the total authoritarianism that he desires,” Cobb noted. “And that war is very dangerous for us all. We need a very strong judiciary, particularly at this time, where the constitutional stresses are extreme and Trump’s abuses of power are unprecedented.”
The only way to truly hold Trump and his accomplices accountable is to vote out every Republican in the House and Senate. Then, at least we’d have a chance of impeaching, convicting, and removing the cancer named Donald Trump from the White House. But that requires us all showing up and voting Democratic in the 2026 midterms. We the People are more powerful than any wannabe dictator, but only if we use the power we were given by the Founding Fathers.
