usurp

I think Trump is a maniacal megalomaniac and would try to usurp the democratic process, not unlike Hitler or Mussolini.

Sharing those details marked her “unilateral decision to usurp” the Mississippi court’s authority, he said.

“It’s hard to move the ball against those guys,” said Heinicke, who learned the playbook in three weeks to usurp incumbent backup Easton Stick after joining the team in a post-training camp trade.

When Jane and Lenny finally land in the gleaming, empty home of her grad school friend Brett, a successful screenwriter, she ditches the book and hatches a plan to usurp some of Brett’s Hollywood pixie dust by talking her way into the good graces of a Black TV producer, Hampton Ford, who is desperate for “a show with a premium vibe … the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.”

On the other hand, he trusted his most faithful lapdog, former Vice President Mike Pence, to follow his orders to usurp the Constitution and look where it got him.