Enemies of the Constitution

In his speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, a Muslim-American lawyer and father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq famously waved a pocket copy of the Constitution in the air and asked Donald Trump if he had even read it.

This was not the first time that Democrats have accused Trump of being in opposition to the Constitution. They have done so since Trump began his campaign for president. The ACLU calls Trump “a one-man constitutional crisis,” and says that his “statements and policy proposals would blatantly violate the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Some Republicans have leveled similar criticisms against Trump. Especially after Trump’s gaffe when he met with House Republicans last month. In response to a lawmaker’s question about how he would protect the powers of Congress as outlined in Article I of the

None of these things that Republicans support the federal government doing are authorized by the Constitution. No not one. Republicans are enemies of the Constitution. For them to criticize Trump and the Democrats for being ignorant of and violating the Constitution is the greatest example in history of the pot calling the kettle black.

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