Not even the death of a former Supreme Court justice can stop PBS News Hour from freaking out about President Donald Trump setting up some sort of dictatorship. On Friday, former Trump impeachment witness and David Souter law clerk Noah Feldman joined the show to remember his former boss and while he never explicitly mentioned Trump, it was clear who he was referring to when he declared of Souter’s legacy, “in the current moment, when the threat to the rule of law is unprecedented, we need that model.”
Narrator William Brangham played a clip of Souter from 2012 during an interview with News Hour’s Margaret Warner where he declared:
I don’t worry about our losing republican government in the United States because I’m afraid of a foreign invasion. [Jump Cut] What I worry about is that, when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is…
