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struggle4progress

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Fri Nov 20, 2020, 01:40 PM Nov 2020

History of undermining law ends with assault on right to vote

By Joan Biskupic

President Donald Trump's four-year history of undermining American rights and legal norms is .. ending with his attack on .. the right to vote.

... current attacks .. on valid election results, without any evidence, ... amount to the ultimate disdain in a democracy ... because when people cannot choose their representatives, they lose a path toward ensuring other rights.

Trump's disregard for the franchise .. culminates a pattern of scorning democratic norms ...

As president, Trump has derided the justice system and tried to delegitimatize individual judges on a regular basis. He challenged accepted principles by declaring certain suspects guilty or deserving of the death penalty, even before a hearing. He opposed any due process for people who had come to the US seeking asylum. He said he wanted an end to birthright citizenship, despite its guarantee in the Constitution's 14th Amendment ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/politics/trump-law-right-to-vote/index.html

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History of undermining law ends with assault on right to vote (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2020 OP
kickety k&r abqtommy Nov 2020 #1
He's behaving as he has his whole life, just amplified. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2020 #2
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