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====Other norms==== Under the campaign and presidency of Donald Trump, observers (such as political scientist Brendan Nyhan) noted some erosion of political norms and ethics, including: * acceptable background for high level officials. ([[Jeff Sessions]] was rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1986 for a federal judgeship because his history on racial issues was considered to be disqualifying, but served as U.S. attorney general from February 9, 2017, to November 7, 2018.)<ref name="Foran-Atlantic-2016">{{cite magazine |last1=Foran |first1=Clare |title='An Erosion of Democratic Norms in America' |magazine=The Atlantic |date=November 22, 2016 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/donald-trump-democratic-norms/508469/ |access-date=October 19, 2022}}</ref> * intolerance of criticism<ref name="Foran-Atlantic-2016"/> is evident in statements such as "Trump Threatens White House Protesters With 'Vicious Dogs' and 'Ominous Weapons{{'"}}<ref name="Haberman">{{cite news |last=Haberman |first=Maggie |author-link=Maggie Haberman |title=Trump Threatens White House Protesters With 'Vicious Dogs' and 'Ominous Weapons' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/politics/trump-threatens-protesters-dogs-weapons.html |access-date=October 19, 2022 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 30, 2020}}</ref> * tolerance for conflicts of interest in government. Public officials who are also businessmen (Donald Trump) accepting money for their business (Trump hotel in Washington) from foreign governments with interests before the United States. ("The Trump hotel in Washington is pitching foreign diplomats on its services, which might violate a clause of the U.S. Constitution that is supposed to ensure that foreign governments can't buy favor with federal officials.")<ref name="Foran-Atlantic-2016"/> *partisan abuse of power. After a Democratic candidate for governor won, Republican majorities in the legislatures of North Carolina, and Wisconsin voted in 2018 to "strip the legitimate powers of newly elected Democratic governors" while the "defeated or outgoing Republican incumbents are still around to sign the bills".<ref name="Packer-corruption-2018">{{cite journal |last1=Packer |first1=George |title=The Corruption of the Republican Party |journal=The Atlantic |date=December 14, 2018 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/ |access-date=October 19, 2022}}</ref> * Applying the rule of "Because we can". Announced on February 13, 2016, the Republican controlled senate refused to hold hearings on the appointment of [[Merrick Garland]] (a Democratic nominee) for the Supreme Court,<ref name="Cox-20-10-2020"/><ref name="TOTENBERG-2016">{{cite news |last=Totenberg |first=Nina |title=Politics 170-Plus Days And Counting: GOP Unlikely To End Supreme Court Blockade Soon |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/06/492857860/173-days-and-counting-gop-unlikely-to-end-blockade-on-garland-nomination-soon |access-date=October 19, 2022 |publisher=NPR |date=September 6, 2016}}</ref> maintaining it was too close to the November 8, 2016 election (almost nine months away at the time), and would deny the American people a "voice" in the selection of the next justice. Four years later, with a Republican now president, a ceremony was held for the nomination of a conservative justice for Supreme Court ([[Amy Coney Barrett]]) on September 26, 2020, a little more than one month (38 days) before Election Day, with [[Mitch McConnell]] claiming, "I think it's very important that we have nine Justices."<ref name="Cox-20-10-2020">{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Chelsey |title=Fact check: Senate Republicans moving to confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee but blocked Obama's |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/20/fact-check-gop-senators-blocked-nomination-merrick-garland-2016/5916555002/ |access-date=October 19, 2022 |newspaper=USA Today |date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="Green-2020">{{cite journal |last1=Green |first1=Emma |title=How the Senate Stopped Pretending |journal=The Atlantic |date=October 15, 2020 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-senate-hearing-fail/616744/ |access-date=October 19, 2022}}</ref>
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