India, April 26 -- Trump's unchecked power, Supreme Court immunity, and GOP fear risk transforming American democracy into autocracy. Justice system must respond urgently.

During her failed presidential campaign last year, the hapless Vice President Kamala Harris, who unexpectedly found herself the Democratic presidential candidate following President Joe Biden's bumbling departure, made a number of dire warnings about the threats Donald Trump posed to America's democracy. Repeatedly, she denounced Trump as a "wannabe dictator obsessed with revenge" seeking unchecked power. "Moderating guardrails", she warned, "would be removed in a second Trump presidency and he would run riot". How prescient were these remarks, borne out by recent even...