{"id":137558,"date":"2025-11-24T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/24\/former-biglaw-partner-calls-out-useless-congress-and-the-evil-president\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:47:18","slug":"former-biglaw-partner-calls-out-useless-congress-and-the-evil-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/24\/former-biglaw-partner-calls-out-useless-congress-and-the-evil-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Biglaw Partner Calls Out Useless Congress And The \u2018Evil\u2019 President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Hogan & Lovells partner turned White House<\/a>\u00a0attorney\u00a0Ty Cobb<\/a> is back to calling out Donald Trump. Sure, the current\u00a0cable news circuit<\/a>\u00a0regular left the hallowed halls of Biglaw to join the first Trump administration, but he quickly left. <\/a>Since then he \u2014 and his signature mustache \u2014 have been a thorn in the side of Trump with a\u00a0folksy\u00a0<\/a>way of\u00a0cutting through <\/a>the\u00a0right-wing BS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Appearing on MS NOW this weekend, Cobb took aim at someone besides the president. Well, to be fair, he *did* call the president \u201cevil\u201d and his attacks against the judiciary \u201cone of the greatest threats to our democracy at this stage of the game,\u201d but he reserved a good bit of his ire for the \u201cneutered\u201d Congress! Cobb noted that Trump \u201cdictates everything\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does. \u201cThat\u2019s tragic because the way the Constitution is designed, Congress, not the courts, were deemed to be the first wave of resistance to an evil president,\u201d said Cobb.<\/p>\n

Now that Congress \u201chanded [Congressional power] to Trump in a basket with a bow on it, which is dangerous,\u201d it is up to the courts to stop a unitary executive. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe courts don\u2019t have the ability to say what\u2019s best for America. They can\u2019t look at a case that way,\u201d said Cobb. \u201cThey have to say what does the Constitution require, and the Constitution really is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump is, somebody whose desire is to accumulate and abuse power.\u201d<\/p>\n

By \u201cdenigrating the judiciary, Trump is basically trying to weaken one of the only remaining pillar that is standing up to prevent the total authoritarianism that he desires,\u201d Cobb said. \u201cAnd that war is very dangerous for us all. We need a very strong judiciary, particularly at this time, where the constitutional stresses are extreme and Trump\u2019s abuses of power are unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview below.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Former Biglaw Partner Calls Out Useless Congress And The \u2018Evil\u2019 President<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Hogan & Lovells partner turned White House<\/a>\u00a0attorney\u00a0Ty Cobb<\/a> is back to calling out Donald Trump. Sure, the current\u00a0cable news circuit<\/a>\u00a0regular left the hallowed halls of Biglaw to join the first Trump administration, but he quickly left. <\/a>Since then he \u2014 and his signature mustache \u2014 have been a thorn in the side of Trump with a\u00a0folksy\u00a0<\/a>way of\u00a0cutting through <\/a>the\u00a0right-wing BS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Appearing on MS NOW this weekend, Cobb took aim at someone besides the president. Well, to be fair, he *did* call the president \u201cevil\u201d and his attacks against the judiciary \u201cone of the greatest threats to our democracy at this stage of the game,\u201d but he reserved a good bit of his ire for the \u201cneutered\u201d Congress! Cobb noted that Trump \u201cdictates everything\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does. \u201cThat\u2019s tragic because the way the Constitution is designed, Congress, not the courts, were deemed to be the first wave of resistance to an evil president,\u201d said Cobb.<\/p>\n

Now that Congress \u201chanded [Congressional power] to Trump in a basket with a bow on it, which is dangerous,\u201d it is up to the courts to stop a unitary executive. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe courts don\u2019t have the ability to say what\u2019s best for America. They can\u2019t look at a case that way,\u201d said Cobb. \u201cThey have to say what does the Constitution require, and the Constitution really is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump is, somebody whose desire is to accumulate and abuse power.\u201d<\/p>\n

By \u201cdenigrating the judiciary, Trump is basically trying to weaken one of the only remaining pillar that is standing up to prevent the total authoritarianism that he desires,\u201d Cobb said. \u201cAnd that war is very dangerous for us all. We need a very strong judiciary, particularly at this time, where the constitutional stresses are extreme and Trump\u2019s abuses of power are unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the full interview below.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Former Biglaw Partner Calls Out Useless Congress And The \u2018Evil\u2019 President<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Hogan & Lovells partner turned White House\u00a0attorney\u00a0Ty Cobb is back to calling out Donald Trump. Sure, the current\u00a0cable news circuit\u00a0regular left the hallowed halls of Biglaw to join the first Trump administration, but he quickly left. Since then he \u2014 and his signature mustache \u2014 have been a thorn in the side of Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_5243-1-scaled-e1623338814705-620x568-boqhKh.jpg?fit=620%2C568&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}