When we, when we have the executive Branch, the House, U.S. house, U.S. senate, controlled by one person, the President, we do not have checks and balances. And The only entity that is preventing the total annihilation, I would say, of a democracy are the courts. And we have a president who believes that judges ought to be impeached, judges who hold against him, which they do, thankfully, in about 75% of the cases that are filed, that he thinks that those judges ought to be impeached. (04:25–04:33)
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Asserts that the courts are the only entity preventing the total annihilation of democracy.
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