When President Trump intervened in the sentencing of Roger Stone, counter to the separation of powers and the rule of law, I was angry and dismayed by his utter disregard of impartial and equal application of justice, that is the essential intention of our Constitution.
My recent letter to the editor had nothing to do with my personal revulsion to Trump and his particular disregard for ethical standards of behavior.
No amount of prayer, or pretense that this president has “brought God back to government,” addresses the violations to rules and boundaries created after WWII to promote international cooperation, or those enacted after Watergate to constrain abuses of the executive branch.
In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and then annexed Crimea in violation of international law.
Attorney General William Barr’s “Unitarian” views of executive powers are not in line with our Constitution, which rejects notions of ultimate power being vested in a monarch or a king.
Being a government of, by and for the people never specifies “the people” being Republican, Democratic Christian, white or those born into affluence.
Many reasonable Americans feel threatened by Trump’s behavior, especially his flaunting of the rule of law in so many branches and agencies of our government. His affinity with dictators around the world concerns rational people who do not adhere to cult-like forms of civic engagement, like repeatedly considering “the other” the enemy or savages because of perceptions unlike their own.
I apologize for the overuse of adjectives in my previous letter.
Ellen J. BensonDolores
