Democrats are threatening to undermine the legitimacy of the judicial branch with an unprecedented campaign of politically motivated litigation against their top political opponent in the run-up to this year’s election. The lawfare strategy comes after years of Democrats’ persistent attacks on the Supreme Court.
Last year, Donald Trump, the now presumptive Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president to be indicted on criminal charges and currently faces 88 state and federal charges across four cases. The Trump campaign, meanwhile, has been forced to spend more than $76 million in legal bills while the former president himself owes more than half a billion in fines from civil cases brought before activist judges. As New York Attorney General Letitia James prepared to seize Trump’s assets to pay down fines of more than $450 million,…
