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There are 3 arms of government in the USA. Republicans control all the 3, the Executives has President Trump (also, the governors are Democratic 32%(16), Republican 66% (33) and Independent 2% (1)), The legislators the 115th United State Congress, i.e. Senate 52% Republican and the House of Representatives 55.3% Republican. In short, Trump has a majority to pass any law he intends to. To add salt to the wound, for the 3rd arm of government, the Judicial, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the supreme court; he seems to be a conservative to the core, from the type of judgments Neil had been rendering. Judge Gorsuch had written a book against assisted suicide and euthanasia; he seems pro-life, pro-gun, etc., a safe bet for the Republican party, especially after they had frustrated the Democrats under Obama to appoint their Judges to the supreme court. 

Earl Warren


US Republican President Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, the 34th President more than 60 years ago in 1953, appointed Earl Warren to the supreme court. Warren was "a former district attorney, a conservative Republican, a pillar of the country club, very much for God and mother and baseball and against sin, crime, a national health insurance system, the communists and the Democrats ". A man Ike thought will be a cool head among the liberal hotheads appointed by his predecessor. But in Ike's own words, turn out to be "The Biggest Damned-Fool Mistake I Ever Made". Warren turned out to be the champion of liberals ending segregation and starting the black revolution. Also, passing laws extended constitutional rights to convicted criminals and the woman's right to abortion. The Warren court also curbed wiretapping, upheld rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, buttressed the right to counsel, extended boundaries of free speech, ruled out compulsory religious exercises in public schools, held that federal prisoners could sue the government, etc. In short, Warren changed the political landscape of America; when asked why it had to become more liberal and inclusive, Earl Warren said, "On the Court, I saw [things] in a different light,".

Now it appears that Justice Neil Gorsuch is changing his tune and said President Trump's comments attacking judges and the judicial system were "disheartening" and "demoralizing.". Please watch this space.

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