An on-going thread of Trump's Legal woes

[chgoliz]

I think that was @Doctor_Faustus. Let me go find it…

Here ya go!

Judge threatens Donald Trump with jail time if he defies gag order again: "If I need to, I will"

There’s a phrase in German that is unfortunately not easy to translate into English: “vorauseilender Gehorsam”. It can be translated as “anticipatory obedience” but that doesn’t capture all the nuance of obsequiousness and eagerness[1] This phrase is often used when talking about the Third Reich, especially the time before the Nazis took power. It describes the situation in which people, very often officials, did what they thought the Nazis wanted without them even having to ask, either becaus…