Once Trump has a SCOTUS that will reliably do his bidding ...
he could be on his way to a complete coup of our government.
The Nazi Reichstag Fire gives him a playbook.
He could secretly create or enable an extreme terrorist crisis within the US which would give him justification to declare martial law.
The current SCOTUS just ruled last week that the president has the right to do just about anything he wants in service of national defense as long as the official documents outlining his actions don't contain any un-Constitutional text.
(Trump was allowed to block Muslims entering the US in spite of stating openly that it's a religious ban, which is unconstitutional. The official document doesn't say this so SCOTUS approved his actions last week. )
Therefore, by this logic, even if everyone knows the threat is fake or enabled by his administration, if the document doesn't say so SCOTUS is likely to approve it.
Then, like Hitler, once he is legally unbounded by Constitutional limitations, he could start eliminating laws that are checks on his power.
If the Mueller investigation starts creating serious waves that are getting too close to him, this scenario could be his way out.
SCOTUS is the only thing that could block him and they would only get one chance to do so. If they let Trump's martial law stand, and being majority conservative they will, there will be no caging him up again.
This idea was bandied about back in the Bush days but no one took it seriously. Now with Trump as president and an extremely conservative SCOTUS that kowtows to him, I think we could actually be dealing with a situation similar to this in the near future.
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