It is both extraordinary and unsettling to see leaders of two of the world’s largest advanced democracies facing accusations of abusing executive power. Hours after Tuesday’s UK Supreme Court ruling that Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in suspending parliament for five weeks, the Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dropped a bombshell. The House launched an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump over claims that the US president sought a foreign power’s help in the 2020 election.
世界最大的兩個發達民主國家的領導人同時面臨濫用行政權的指控,這一幕既不尋常,又令人不安。周二,英國最高法院(Supreme Court)裁定首相鮑里斯?約翰遜(Boris Johnson)暫停議會五周的行為不合法,幾小時后,美國民主黨籍眾議院議長南希?佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)又投下一枚重磅炸彈。美國眾議院對總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)發起彈劾調查,理由是特朗普在2020年的競選角逐中尋求外國勢力的幫助。