Almost the whole chain of the US justice system is submerged in controversy of some kind. At the front end, there are the enforcers, the police, whose tactics have been the subject of protests since the killing of George Floyd, a black man, in Minnesota last May. At the remote extreme of the system, the Supreme Court is on the verge of a lasting shift to the right, to the anguish of liberal America. In between is the justice department, which Donald Trump’s administration has often politicised to its own ends.
美國司法系統的幾乎整個鏈條都陷入某種爭議之中。在最前端是執法者——警察,自今年五月在明尼蘇達州黑人喬治•佛洛伊德(George Floyd)被殺以來,警察的策略就一直是抗議的主題。在這個體系的極遠端,美國最高法院即將持久地轉向右翼,這讓美國的自由派感到痛苦。在兩者之間是司法部,唐納•川普(Donald Trump)政府經常爲了自身的目的將這一部門政治化。