RT Christopher Landau (@DeputySecState)The separation of powers among different branches of government is the greatest guarantor of liberty ever devised by the human mind. No single branch, or person, can amass too much power if checked by the others. But a formal separation of powers means nothing if one branch has the means to intimidate the others into surrendering their constitutional prerogatives. What is happening now in Brazil 🇧🇷underscores this point: a single Justice of the Supreme Court has usurpe ...

Got some breaking news from the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the court ruled to allow the Trump administration to slash the federal workforce at the Department of Education. In her descent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was joined by Justice Kagan and Justice Jackson, writes, "The decision is indefensible. It hands the executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or n ...