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Donald Trump’s campaign to destroy the rule of law and establish an elective dictatorship has coopted the congressional Republican Party and thus eliminated Congress as a coequal branch of government. In the executive branch, he is stamping out all centers of resistance—and indeed of independent thought. The only federal constitutional entity now standing between Trump and his dark triumph is the judiciary.

Most recent discussion about the judges’ response to Trump’s assaults on law and decency has focused on whether the Trump administration will comply with adverse court orders and what courts or anyone else can do if it refuses. Trump minions like Attorney General Pam Bondi and immigration “czar” Tom Homan have openly stated that actions enjoined by courts will “absolutely” continue. It remains to be seen if comments like these will prove to be mere bluster or instead manifest a settled determination to defy the judiciary.

Regardless, Trump’s effort to shake off judicial constraints is not limited to threats of noncompliance. The other blade of the shears is his effort to intimidate judges with threats of impeachment and thereby discourage them from ruling against him in the first place. Trump has expressly called for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, who ordered a temporary halt to the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.