For now Trump is working more or less within the law. He's appointing loyalists as interim US attorneys. At some point he may not bother with lawyers at all. By Hal M. Brown

Why bother with the fiction of having a legal system when you have armed goons to do your dirty work?

HUFFPOST called it ATTACK OF THE TOADIES on their main page yesterday. Their article was titled The Henchmen Strategy: What Trump Is Doing To Make The Law His Own with the subtitle The Trump administration has appointed numerous interim U.S. Attorneys — and it's all part of his quest to twist law enforcement agencies into his personal legal task force.

I am waiting for him to stop bothering keeping up the appearance of actually having a judicial system. It is simply inefficient and wasteful for him to spend money on even ve paying US Attorneys and their office staff. I assume most of the offices are prime real estate properties too and they could be sold. This money could be put into hiring more loyalists in ICE and the other federal law enforcement agencies. I doubt even the most loyal Trump toadie lawyers would be willing to join ICE even if they got to carry big guns because they’d have to take a pay cut from their current salary. ICE agents pay averages $30 an hour.

If, as I predicted would happen in my April 27 Substack Trump could combine DOGE and ICE and we could have an American Gestapo armed with both guns and computers. If this happens they will need far more personnel. There would be able to locate many more enemies and they wouldn’t have enough fright-mongers to sic upon them and drag them off to only the Trump annointed and perhaps God, if He’s paying attention, knows where.

I see a time down the road when Trump won’t need any lawyers at all. I doubt Trump knows that the phrase “let’s kill all the lawyers” orginated with Shakespeare.

It is spoken by Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part 2. Trump loves his lickspittle lawyers and hates the lawyers who rule against him. Whether judges or other lawyers they have been a thorn in his side. I am sure he would like to, figurately speaking or not, kill all of those lawyers. If he had a way to eliminate his troublesome lawyers but it involved sending all lawers to kingdom come he’d probably give the order. With Trump loyalty to him works only to a point. Bye bye Bondi, Alina Habba, and Ed Martin. Trump could mandate that practicing law was illegal.

As for his own lawyers, starting with Pam Bondi, who as Attorney General, is the top lawyer in the Executive Branch and going down the ranks of his other lawyers, one of these days he may realize at 2:00AM while he’s playing with his tweet machine that he no longer needs any lawyers. This incudes those on the Supreme Court. Does anyone really believe he actually likes Clarence Thomas?

Why should he bother with keeping up the fiction that the country has a judicial system. When he’s already burned the Constitution to a crisp why does he need three equal branches of government? Hell’s blazes, why does he even need two?

Besides, who needs due process when in Trump’s America you have the right to DUDE PROCESS?

Trump could outdo Putin, who has his own toadies in his bicameral Federal Assembly. He could just declare himself absolute monarch and get rid of Congress and the Supreme Court. He could turn the Capitol into a Trump Hotel and the Supreme Court building into a glitzy Trump store selling his latest gold geegaws.

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