Support for Boris Johnson should remind of the necessity of impeachment
By John Nichols
TODAY 7:15 AM
... Johnson’s move to “prorogue” the parliamentary session before elected representatives return next week from summer recess dramatically narrows Parliament’s options over if and how Britain will leave the European Union. The result has been a massive outcry in the United Kingdom, where more than 1.5 million people have signed “Parliament must not be prorogued or dissolved” petitions.
But Johnson was being cheered on from one precinct: the Oval Office ...
... why is Trump so enthusiastic about Johnson’s abuse of power? It is no secret that Trump has a thing for authoritarians abroad. Nor is it a secret that Trump has committed constitutional abuses of his own. In February, you will recall, he declared a “national emergency” in order to divert money to pay for a border wall after Congress refused to fund it—a blunt rejection of the separation of powers. Not too many years earlier, as a private citizen without the power of the office, Trump argued that mild executive actions should be seen as efforts to “subvert the Constitution of the US.” Now, he’s tossed aside the rule book. And he keeps signaling that he might go to even greater extremes.
In a July 23 speech, the president declared, “Then I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President” ...
https://www.thenation.com/article/why-trumps-support-of-boris-johnson-should-remind-congress-to-impeach/