There is now complete, unrelenting anarchy in the hallowed corridors of the US Senate, which is typically a theater of measured etiquette and slow-moving bureaucracy. The impetus was a formal letter signed by twenty-one sitting federal judges that arrived with the force of a tectonic upheaval rather than a legislative impasse or a typical party fight. In a move that many are referring to as a constitutional emergency, these individuals have betrayed their profession, which is characterized by a commitment to impartial observation and public silence. They accuse a past president of “functional tyranny” in the letter, an allegation so serious that it has essentially exploded Washington politics.
