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.
世界最大的两个发达民主国家的领导人同时面临滥用行政权的指控,这一幕既不寻常,又令人不安。周二,英国最高法院(Supreme Court)裁定首相鲍里斯•约翰逊(Boris Johnson)暂停议会五周的行为不合法,几小时后,美国民主党籍众议院议长南希•佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)又投下一枚重磅炸弹。美国众议院对总统唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)发起弹劾调查,理由是特朗普在2020年的竞选角逐中寻求外国势力的帮助。