There are a number of ironies surrounding Charlie Kirk's death. (He was being asked a question on gun violence when he was shot, for instance.) One of them is the baying of Trump and Trumpets about law and order. This is rich. Trump is, after all, a convicted felon.
The contempt for the law permeates so much of Trump's actions. Now we have a perfect example of Trump's rampant lawlessness: His intention to remove Lisa Cook as a Federal Reserve Governor.
The case for removing her was that she falsified mortgage documents for tax purposes. Subsequent investigations have shown that members of the Executive Branch have done this.
Recent revelations show that Cook did NOT claim her second residence as a primary residence (the "crime" that she was accused of).
Removing a Fed Governor is a startling aggregation of power in the Presidency. The Fed is walled off from this sort of pressure by design, and even the Roberts Court, when it gave Trump power to fire other protected members of the Executive Branch, denied him the power to fire Federal Reserve Governors.
Again, this would have been a major scandal before Trump. Like so many things, Trump's vulgar disdain for democratic checks and balances and his assumption that laws don't apply to him only his enemies is a fraught moment in American democracy. Just as fraught, I would argue, as some Groyper, 4Chan asshole shooting a public speaker.
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