DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With impeachment no longer in their arsenal, Democrats are coming to terms with a new reality: they have few, if any, weapons to take on an emboldened President Donald Trump as he openly settles scores with his political adversaries and continues breaching the wall between the Justice Department and Oval Office. Democrats vented outrage Tuesday [2-11-20] over Trump’s attack on his own DOJ prosecutors and his demand of a lighter sentence for longtime ally Roger Stone. One after another, top Democrats in the House and Senate said Trump’s 2 a.m. Twitter intervention further erodes the rule of law…Yet so far, Democrats are offering an unsettled array of responses that a post-impeachment Congress can make to rein in Trump or highlight alleged transgressions by the president.”
–Kyle Cheney and John Bresnahan, “Democrats struggle to counter Trump’s Roger Stone intervention,” Politico, February 11, 2020 6:44 pm