Donald Trump could threaten U.S. rule of law, scholars say

This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary… You can criticize the judicial system, you can criticize individual cases, you can criticize individual judges. But the president has to be clear that the law is the law and that he enforces the law. That is his constitutional obligation.

— David Post, a retired law professor who now writes for the Volokh Conspiracy (Donald Trump could threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say)