The second Trump administration has finally awoken the world to the existential dangers posed by America’s unilateralist presidency, which itself evolved over the course of many decades of legal theorizing and political paradigm shifts. The question now is what to do about it.
NEW HAVEN – Americans have long trumpeted the checks and balances that animate their constitution. But the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term as president have forced us to ask how robust these guardrails really are. How did the structural features of the American system become so distorted and degraded as to transform the chief defender of US national security into its biggest threat?
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