Cobb
Former
Hogan
&
Lovells
partner
turned
White
House attorney Ty
Cobb
is
back
to
calling
out
Donald
Trump.
Sure,
the
current cable
news
circuit regular
left
the
hallowed
halls
of
Biglaw
to
join
the
first
Trump
administration,
but
he
quickly
left.
Since
then
he
—
and
his
signature
mustache
—
have
been
a
thorn
in
the
side
of
Trump
with
a folksy way
of cutting
through
the right-wing
BS.
Appearing
on
MS
NOW
this
weekend,
Cobb
took
aim
at
someone
besides
the
president.
Well,
to
be
fair,
he
*did*
call
the
president
“evil”
and
his
attacks
against
the
judiciary
“one
of
the
greatest
threats
to
our
democracy
at
this
stage
of
the
game,”
but
he
reserved
a
good
bit
of
his
ire
for
the
“neutered”
Congress!
Cobb
noted
that
Trump
“dictates
everything”
House
Speaker
Mike
Johnson
(R-La.)
does.
“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,”
said
Cobb.
Now
that
Congress
“handed
[Congressional
power]
to
Trump
in
a
basket
with
a
bow
on
it,
which
is
dangerous,”
it
is
up
to
the
courts
to
stop
a
unitary
executive.
“The
courts
don’t
have
the
ability
to
say
what’s
best
for
America.
They
can’t
look
at
a
case
that
way,”
said
Cobb.
“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
said.
“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.”
Watch
the
full
interview
below.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
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Law,
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Jabot
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