I think the Constitution has to be the highest law in the land, the place we turn when all else breaks down. I know it’s old, but it’s what we have to fight back with, and we shouldn’t concede any ground without a fight.
anything congressionally mandated which is all the money related things. This was actually something that was already played out in the nixon administration so if the trump rules the other way they would once again be ignoring precedence which is part of the reason we are as fucked as we are now.
Anything to do with money, such as yesterday’s fiasco. As was mentioned in many articles yesterday Congress has the “power of the purse”, meaning they control the budget and taxes (dictated by several parts of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution). Trump unilaterally decided to stop payment on grants and funds that were already previously approved by Congress.
The birthright citizenship one is the main one that comes to mind. I do not think all of them are, that would be stretching things.
The first one that comes to mind is the order on birthright citizenship. Most of others I’ve looked into are in the borderlands of maybe. I seem to recall LegalEagle did a video on it, but I haven’t seen it yet. Haven’t had time.
Here’s the video if you’re interested.
One of the biggest problems with this country is that most of them aren’t unconstitutional. Sure there are exceptions (which others will name), but we’ve been building up the president to be a king for a very long time. We’ve counted on elections and Congress to prevent that, which is amazing that it didn’t implode sooner.
Elections and congress were built upon the idea of shame. As in, no one could possibly do that and still expect to be reelected. A felon with a fraud conviction and a history of naked nepotism isn’t going to ask people to donate money with a straight face.
Probably some of them but I don’t think the constitution really matters anymore.
Birthright citizenship
Like bruh…
If the courts uphold it, then you know the constitution is over, the US Oligarchy will become the same as Russian Oligarchy.
I don’t know why this is the line in the sand. The American oligarchy has been running shit since Koch brothers o’clock. There are some small practical differences, but for all intents and purposes, those differences are negligable and the rich get the laws they pay the government officials to produce.
Straw and camel backs etc.
It would be the last confirmation that the president has absolute power.
No power is ever as absolute as people think. AmeriKKKa has been in a death spiral for a while now, but it will probably still tske a really long time to disintigrate. If anything, fascism signals that the elite are losing their grip on power as it’s the tool they always turn to when desperately holding on. It will look like absolute power for a while, but it will ultimately burn itself on both ends until there isn’t anything left to burn. Alot of people will inevitable get burnt up between the flames though.
