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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/11/28/opinion-trump-plans-to-delete-a-part-of-the-constitution-for-his-racist-base.htmlPosted on Sat, Nov 28th, 2020 by Rmuse
Opinion: Trump Plans To Delete A Part Of The Constitution For His Racist Base
Rmuse
It isnt clear how much longer Republicans will allow Trump to undermine the United States Constitution, but his latest threat to rewrite a portion of the nations founding document to suit his xenophobic and racist tendencies amounts to an honest-to-dog constitutional crisis.
Republicans should have been up in arms early in Trumps term over his remarks that the U.S. Constitution is bad for America, but of course they were not. Instead of slapping the orange coloring right off of his fat bloated face, Republicans simple did, and said, nothing. They had bigger concerns on their minds that involved giving the rich and corporations more taxpayer dollars and dismantling the federal government.
Trumps latest outrage, and it is a bonafide outrage, is his pledge to delete part of the U.S. Constitutions 14th Amendment by issuing an executive order banning birthright citizenship; his racist and xenophobic supporters demanded drastic action to make America a white Aryan Utopia; as if that would do the deed.
For the uninformed, the 14th Amendment guarantees that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen. Like the rest of the Founding Document, Trump thinks the Amendment is bad. It is noteworthy that most Republicans and certainly most evangelical fanatics also believe the 14th Amendment is bad simply because it gives every American equal protections of the laws.
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There are reports that Trump and his aides are consulting with members of the White House counsel to draft an executive order for the expressed purpose of wiping out a section of the document Trump swore, so help him god, to support, defend, and preserve. Sadly, there are a fair number of Americans who want Trump to delete several parts of the Constitution that do not comport with their racism and religious fanaticism; all to provide them with legal authority to suppress other Americans who fail to comply with the worst of populations demands.
Trump is an angry loser and he intends on burning as much of America as he can get away with and his Republican acolytes are more than happy to get on board. It is a damn sad state of affairs that so many Americans voted for an aspiring dictator with as little fealty to the U.S. Constitution as he does the people who worship him as their gods chosen one for America.
Of course such an order will face court challenges and some naïve Americans believe the courts will adhere to the plain and simple language of the 14th Amendment. There is a reason Moscow Mitch McConnell spent the entirely of the past two years packing the courts with Trump supporters while hundreds of pieces of legislation languished on his desk. Now it is not certain any of Trumps appointees to the High Court will adhere to the Constitution simply because that is not why they are there. Trump knows it and it is certainly one of the overriding reasons he waited until there was a clear conservative majority on the High Court before issuing an order specifically deleting a key part of the United States Constitutions 14thAmendment.
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Trump Plans To Delete A Part Of The Constitution For His Racist Base [View all]
babylonsister
Nov 2020
OP
Dumb question: if he could shiv 14A by EO, why not also extend his term to 10 years?
Girard442
Nov 2020
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