nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/67c74499fd6f8191 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240219s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/67c74499fd6f8191 doi eng 342 23 Issacharoff, Samuel Author aut Trump’s Trials for Democracy Issacharoff, Samuel Verfassungsblog 2024-02-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It is hard to imagine a stable democracy having to confront the legal challenges presented by Donald Trump’s bid for reelection.  Courts have found him to be responsible for sexual assault, defamation and fraud, all in relatively quick succession. Taken together with repeated acts of demagogy and cruelty, the various legal proceedings reinforce the sense that Trump simply does not belong within the bounds of legitimate democratic contestation. But the charges against him thus far are civil claims that have no formal bearing on his bid for office. Nor do they seem to affect public opinion as the polarized electoral environment has little intermediate play that might be swayed by scandal, legal condemnation, or even the sense that enough is enough. CC BY-SA 4.0 14th Amendment Donald Trump Militant Democracy US Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/trumps-trials-for-democracy/ raw object