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-- 2016 --
July 13: Donald Trump: A One-Man
Constitutional Crisis
The Republican President-elect's statements and policy proposals would blatantly
violate the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/executive-branch/donald-trump-one-man-constitutional-crisis
July 28: Khan to Trump: 'Have you even read
the U.S. Constitution?'
Khizr Khan, father of one of 14 American Muslims who died serving the United
States, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/07/28/khan-to-trump-have-you-even-read-the-u-s-constitution.html
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January 31: Critics debate 5 ways President
Trump may have violated the Constitution
The areas of concern span multiple
sections of the Constitution, and the most attention recently focused
on Trump's immigration order.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/01/31/critics-debate-five-ways-president-trump-may-have-violated-constitution/lROExwrjgyRDT6Qu9dm6jN/story.html
March 16:
Trump reacted to rulings against his revised travel ban by making the kind of
argument strongman leaders often make ...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trump-thinks-the-constitution-makes-us-look-weak-w472544
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June 5: Trump’s attack on the Constitution
that nobody likes to talk about
It’s been a rough few months for the “enemy
of the American people.”
Journalists have been
arrested for asking questions,
pinned against a wall,
arrested while covering protests,
body-slammed, and even had
government officials joke about shooting them.
For a long time, this kind of blatant disregard for the freedom of the press—a
profession explicitly protected by the United States Constitution—would have
been abhorrent to most Americans. But as President
Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric against the press on a
near-daily basis, press freedom experts are openly wondering whether this
hostility is becoming normalized and, with it, one of the Constitution’s
greatest protections swept under the rug in favor of anti-First Amendment
resentment.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/anti-press-normalizing-trump/
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June 29: The Constitution vs. Trump
How President Trump's opponents believe the US Constitution may prove the most
effective barrier against his policies.
Like every American president before him,
Donald Trump has sworn "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the
United States".
But his opponents say he's been doing almost the exact opposite since he came to
power.
Their hope is that by making it clear (be it through legal challenge, protest or
the ballot box) that President Trump is indifferent to the responsibilities of
his office and routinely flouts the various amendments enshrined in the Bill of
Rights, they can use the constitution against him and bring his term in the
White House to an early close.
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2017/06/constitution-trump-170628122318620.html
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July 4: How Trump is threatening the
Constitution
As Trump's political rhetoric turns into policy, our fundamental American values
are being put to their greatest test.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/How-Trump-is-threatening-the-Constitution-11264030.php
August 6: Trump bound by Constitution to
execute health care law
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/06/trump-health-care/104362272/
August 24: What is the 25th Amendment of the
US Constitution and can it be used to remove Donald Trump from office?
[In part]:"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal
officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by
law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is
unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President
shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting
President.”
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In practice what that means is Mike Pence plus 13 of Mr Trump’s 24 cabinet
members would have to agree.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/25th-amendment-us-constitution-can-used-remove-donald-trump/
September 15: President Donald J. Trump
Proclaims September 17, 2017, as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and
September 17, 2017, through September 23, 2017, as Constitution Week
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-september-17-2017-constitution-day-citizenship-day-september-17-2017-september-23-2017-constitution-week/
October 13: Trump declares war on the
Constitution
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-trump-constitution-war-20171013-story.html
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December 22: A federal judge dismissed a
lawsuit Thursday alleging that President Donald Trump violated the
Constitution’s emoluments clause because his hotels and restaurants do business
with foreign governments while he is in office.
The plaintiffs argued that because Trump properties rent out hotel rooms and
meeting spaces to other governments, the president was violating a
constitutional provision that bans the acceptance of foreign emoluments, or
gifts from foreign powers.
But Judge George Daniels of the Southern District of New York ruled that the
plaintiffs, led by the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington (CREW), lacked standing to bring such a case, saying it was
up to Congress to prevent the president from accepting emoluments.
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/22/trump-constitution-violation-lawsuit-dismissed/
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January 9: 2017: The Constitution, Federal
Courts and President Trump
2017 was a tumultuous, stressful and painful year for the many Americans who
believe we are all created equal and that we possess natural and constitutional
rights that include freedom, justice, liberty, equality, fairness and
opportunity.
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/sites/newyorklawjournal/2018/01/09/2017-the-constitution-federal-courts-and-president-trump/
January 26: In the year since President
Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, a myriad of constitutional issues has
so far arisen during his term. This has led some legal journalists like the
New York Times’s Adam Liptak to note that “President Trump is
transforming the study of constitutional law.”
The National Constitution Center has closely tracked these constitutional
controversies, and offered nonpartisan analysis and commentary as well as
nonpartisan educational resources about them.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/trump-and-the-constitution-a-year-in-review-and-our-coverage
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February 16: Trump 'Muslim ban' violates US
Constitution: Court
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-muslim-ban-violates-us-constitution-court-313908039
March 20: Progressive group launches
anti-Trump 'We the Constitution' campaign
A progressive group that says it wants to expose misconduct by
President Trump and his Cabinet is taking on the president through
his favorite form of communication: Twitter.
The Shadow Cabinet, a group of 21 scholars, activists and former officials,
announced Tuesday morning that it’s launching “We the Constitution."
The campaign asks citizens to sign an online copy of the Constitution. Doing
so sends an automated message to Trump on Twitter and Facebook telling him to
stop violating the law.
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/379246-progressive-group-launches-anti-trump-we-the-constitution-campaign
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March 23: In Trump emoluments case,
questions of ethics and constitutional intent
Lawsuits have been filed in federal court in New York, Maryland, and the
District of Columbia seeking a declaration that President Trump is violating the
US Constitution because his hotels and other companies continue to do business
with foreign governments and foreign officials.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/0323/In-Trump-emoluments-case-questions-of-ethics-and-constitutional-intent
March 25: The Constitution won't let Trump
put drug dealers to death
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/la-ol-le-trump-drug-dealers-death-penalty-20180325-story.html
March 28: Judge says lawsuit accusing Trump
of violating Constitution can proceed
A federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging President Donald
Trump is violating the Constitution because his businesses are benefiting from
his presidency, the first ruling to find that a litigant can sue the president
on the issue.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte found the state of Maryland and
the District of Columbia had standing to bring claims against Trump, who hasn’t
divested his business holdings. The plaintiffs allege Trump is violating
constitutional clauses that prohibit the president from receiving emoluments —
things of value — from foreign or state governments.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/judge-says-lawsuit-accusing-trump-of-violating-constitution-can-proceed-2018-03-28
April 16: The constitutional showdown over
President Donald Trump’s travel ban
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A federal district court in Hawaii held that the travel proclamation violated
the Immigration and Nationality Act and barred its enforcement, except with
respect to North Korea and Venezuela.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/analysis-the-constitutional-showdown-over-president-donald-trumps-travel-ban
May 1: Trump Trashes the Constitution. So
Where Are the Lawyers?
Bar associations condemned Nixon during Watergate. Why are those organizations
silent today?
When the history of Donald Trump’s presidency is written, and the historians
ask, “Where were the lawyers?” the answer must not be, “silent.” They were not
silent during Watergate and they must not be silent now.
As during Watergate, we once again have a president who issues self-serving
professions of innocence, while, like President Nixon, he seeks simultaneously
to frustrate and undermine the governmental entities charged with investigating
his wrongdoing and that of his cohorts. In so doing Trump has unabashedly
employed the power and influence of his office to attempt to discredit his own
Justice Department and the FBI to his own advantage.
http://prospect.org/article/trump-trashes-constitution-so-where-are-lawyers
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May 12: Congress Must Be A Check On Trump To
Avoid A Constitutional Crisis
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/congress-must-be-a-check-on-trump-to-avoid-a-constitutional-crisis/
May 21:
Trump has set in motion a constitutional crisis, having sold American foreign
policy to the highest bidder.
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May 22: Trump's norm-breaking is leading to
a constitutional fight
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/donald-trump-justice-department-constitution/index.html
May 23: Trump's blocking of critics on
Twitter violates Constitution: U.S. judge
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-twitter/trump-blocking-critics-on-twitter-violates-constitution-judge-idUSKCN1IO2P2
May 24: Donald Trump Suggests Deporting
Kneeling NFL Players After New Policy Revealed
http://deadline.com/2018/05/donald-trump-tweets-nfl-kneeling-policy-1202396643/
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September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald
Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on
Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise
their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut
Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell
trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if
the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months
to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance
Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
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October 31: Trump claims he can defy
Constitution and end birthright citizenship
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/donald-trump-ending-birthright-citizenship/index.html
December 17:
At the turn of the 18th century, a newly elected
president of the United States—only the second in the nation’s then-brief
history—cautioned the American people about “the danger to our liberties if
anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair,
virtuous, and independent elections.” In particular, John Adams pointed to
threats from abroad, warning that if a changed election outcome “can be obtained
by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror,
intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American
people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not
we, the people, who govern ourselves.” Speaking before a joint session of
Congress, he thus pleaded with the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives
to “[preserve] our Constitution from its natural enemies,” including “the
profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the
angel of destruction to elective governments.”1
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The threat of foreign influence over our elections did not wane in the
intervening 220 years: Today, the United States has a president whose election
was aided by the fraud and intrigue of a foreign nation. Americans who watched
how President Donald Trump, in the words of the late Sen. John McCain, “abased
himself … abjectly before a tyrant” in Helsinki, cannot be faulted for wondering
whether John Adams’s long-ago warning has become a reality.2
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/
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January 10: A
federal judge on Wednesday struck down an Iowa law that made it illegal to get a
job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation
U.S. District Court Judge James Gritzner sided with opponents of the 2012 law
that was intended to stop organizations like People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals from doing animal abuse investigations at farms and puppy mills. Iowa
lawmakers approved the measure, which threatened up to a year in jail to those
who conducted an undercover operation, after several high-profile cases in which
animal welfare advocates recorded questionable animal treatment and then
publicized the images through the media.
“Ag gag clearly is a violation of Iowans’ First Amendment rights to free
speech,” ... “It has effectively silenced advocates and ensured that animal
cruelty, unsafe food safety practices, environmental hazards, and inhumane
working conditions go unreported for years.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iowa-ag-gag-law-struck-down_us_5c375c1fe4b045f676898ab0
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January/February:
What Can a President Do During a State of Emergency?
The Alarming Scope of the President's Emergency Powers
From seizing control of the internet to declaring martial law, President Trump
may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/
February 15:
On Friday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he would be declaring a
state of emergency on the US-Mexico border and unilaterally appropriating funds
to pay for his border wall.
It’s not clear if he can actually do that: The Constitution gives Congress, not
the president, the ultimate power to appropriate money. The president legally
has the power to declare emergencies and respond, but can he do that in a
situation where Congress has explicitly declined to fund the president’s wall?
According to Elizabeth Goitein, an expert on national security law, the answer
is that he can’t — and Trump’s attempt to do so constitutes a “constitutional
crisis.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/15/18226315/trump-emergency-national-wall-border-illegal
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May 29:
Republican Group Will Run Ad on 'Fox & Friends' Urging
Congress to Hold Trump Accountable: Mueller Did His Job... Now Do Yours
Republicans for the Rule of Law (RRL), a conservative group whose stated purpose
is “defending the institutions of our republic,” will advertise on Fox &
Friends next week to urge members of Congress to hold President Donald
Trump accountable for the findings in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Chris Truax, a spokesperson and legal adviser for RRL, told Newsweek that
Congress must properly investigate Mueller’s findings in order to address the
“corruption of our Constitution from within.”
"Everybody — Republicans and Democrats but especially Republicans — need to step
up and say, 'Look, this is bigger than the politics of the day, this is about
our democratic institutions.' If we don't defend them, that will have an impact
on our country for decades to come," he said. "President Trump still does not
want to admit that this happened and that's wrong, absurd and dangerous.
Republicans need to stop enabling this behavior."
GOP members should be “appalled at their casual disregard for the law, the
Constitution and everything that makes America great,” Truax added. “Americans
of all political affiliations should recoil at the plain fact that senior
members of the administration put their own interests above the national
security of the United States.”
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-group-will-run-ad-fox-friends-urging-congress-hold-trump-1438843
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