Port: When do those checks and balances kick in?

When power tests the limits of principle, the response reveals more than any campaign speech. Columnist Rob Port recalls a recent conversation with North Dakota Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak, who once told him her red line for Donald Trump was simple: he must respect the courts. Now, with Trump defying a federal order by deploying National Guard troops to Portland, that test has arrived. Port wonders whether Fedorchak—and the Republican Party more broadly—will hold that line or look the other way.

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