In a wide‑ranging interview, human rights lawyer and former New York State assistant attorney general Reid Brody offers a scathing assessment of Donald Trump’s second term. Brody’s reflections draw on his decades of experience with international litigation and advocacy, and he situates current U.S. political dynamics within broader concerns about democratic institutions, the rule of law, and the erosion of traditional checks and balances. In contrast to Trump’s first term, when political norms and institutional restraints reined in his most extreme impulses, Mr. Brody warns that an emboldened Trump now confronts head on a weakened system of democratic checks and balances, a Republican party displaying fealty, and shifting media landscape that favors capitulation.
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'Trump pits Americans against Americans: We are living in a very dangerous moment in the US'
