Friedman: The president’s scheme to sack Powell paves the road to constitutional ruin

I am rarely rendered speechless, but it is hard for me to find the words to express my respect for and gratitude to the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, for doing something so few Republicans have been ready to do: Stand up to the lying and bullying of President Donald Trump and the cowardly sycophants — in this case Attorney General Pam Bondi — he has surrounded himself with.

Instead of bending to Trump, hiding or turning the other cheek, Powell called out the Justice Department for...