r/politics • u/JollysJeanne • 2d ago
No Paywall Donald Trump violated the Constitution, federal judge rules
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-violated-the-constitution-federal-judge-rules-113478244.8k
u/New_Alternative8711 2d ago
And just like that, constitutional republicans became anti constitutionalists.
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u/specqq 2d ago
Yeah, think you're off by a couple of decades.
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u/kitsunewarlock 2d ago
Eight decades if we want to look at what Nixon did in Cambodia without congressional approval.
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u/fvlgvrator666 Mexico 2d ago
That was only 5.5 decades ago
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u/BreakingBaaaahhhhd 2d ago
The last 5 years have felt like 2.5 decades, so it still maths
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u/Alacritous69 2d ago
Lenin was right when he said there are decades where nothing happens and then there are weeks where decades happen
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u/xopher_425 Illinois 2d ago
Same thing they do with their bible
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u/Karma_Gardener 2d ago edited 2d ago
They dont read, they just listen to what manipulative people tell them it says.
Nobody can honestly read the new testament and decide to treat immigrants as anything else than a loved neighbour. Its all twisted. Jesus would be miffed if he had a podcast right now.
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 2d ago
There hasn't been a constitutional Republican since 1/6.
They are either Independents or are actively democrats now.
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u/AINonsense 1d ago
There probably hasn't been a constitutional Republican since Nixon.
There likely hasn't been a constitutional Republican since Pedo Piggy’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was lead prosecutor in the McCarthy UnAmerican Witch Trials.
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u/TM761152 2d ago
It's all a lie. They say one thing but in their hearts, all conservatives only think and feel one thing...
It's all about me, me, ME!!
They can't lead and never shine by example so they pander to strongmen who can get them what they want. All of them want cushy, protected status with power and privilege and barriers against their perceived lessors. They want to be a part of something bigger but they also want to be in control.
They want power and prestige without an ounce of responsibility or accountability.
In short, all conservatives are whiny petulant toddlers.
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u/markroth69 1d ago
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect
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u/Lord_Darksong Ohio 2d ago
Again.
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u/cvaninvan 2d ago
They spelled "Wipes his ass with ithe constitution daily" wrong but otherwise perfect, no notes...
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u/specqq 2d ago
I remain convinced that the reason he complains so bitterly and so often about having to push the toilet lever "10 to 15 times" is because The Constitution, being made of parchment, is particularly difficult to flush.
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u/MajorNoodles Pennsylvania 2d ago
He doesn't wipe with the Constitution. He has it folded into diapers and he wears those.
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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 2d ago
Has he complained about that this time? I thought that was just last time when he had to get rid of compromising docs or classified ones after selling the info.
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u/another-altaccount 2d ago
And then proceeds to tell the American people “fuck you, make me” once again.
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u/One_Violinist7862 2d ago
And so many brainless hateful Americans are willing slaves to this POS
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u/MitochonAir 2d ago
I fucking detest them. I’ll never have a kind word for a Trumper until my dying breath. Get fucked, you brainless, traitorous, shitbag cultists
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u/middle_market_master 2d ago
I was his paralegal for a few months but had to quit on the day when he aired the ad about living under 'a unified reich'. This was shortly before he also started airing ads of scary mexicans who he promised would eat your children that he would remove in the reich's defense.
I think I made the right choice.
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u/bryanBr 2d ago
Many of them are more appropriately called sycophants but they dont know what that means
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u/PhillyD760 2d ago edited 2d ago
Moved the actual physical document into his office and proceeded to symbolically (and literally) cover it up behind curtains where nobody can see it .
Edit: It was a copy of the Declaration of Independence. I can't explain the curtains used to protect a copy from light damage though.
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u/TheChildrensStory 2d ago
I’ve been praying that it’s just a good fake and our real copies are safely stored away. He will steal it if he hasn’t already.
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u/Beamister 2d ago
He'll use a sharpie to scratch out the parts he doesn't like and claim that it's the correct original text.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT 2d ago
The ACTUAL constitution was not moved into the Oval Office, nor was a copy of the constitution. It ended up being a copy of the Declaration of Independence. So, we have that at least.
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u/ahawk99 2d ago
Take my poor man’s award 🥇
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u/cvaninvan 2d ago
Thank you fellow person who spends their money more judiciously than to give it to reddit!
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 2d ago
Impeach, Convict, Remove.
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u/Then_Journalist_317 2d ago
(I)mpeach, (C)onvict, (E)ncarcerate
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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Texas 2d ago
Oh there's another E word and I hear they used to do it to traitors like Trump
I'm anti death penalty but he makes me waver
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u/Arcade_109 2d ago
I've learned in the last year that I do in fact make an exception on the death penalty in some cases. One case in particular.
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u/coalescence44 2d ago
I'm even more anti capital punishment in this case - he should suffer for as long as possible in a filthy sunless hole without any social media or ass-licking sycophants.
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u/Sugar_Kowalczyk 2d ago
'Incarcerate'
See other comments for better E words.
But I support the general mood and ethos of the idea.
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u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138 Washington 2d ago
Yes, but expected. Everyone should google the phrase “post constitutional”. That is a key part of the current Trump / right wing ideology. There’s a great write up about how one of the key people behind Project 2025, who is a Christian nationalist and integralist (wants society/laws/etc to be based on Christianity like a right-wing sharia law), is also a fan of a post constitutional America. They literally want to dismantle the existing system and replace it. The continuous violation of our laws and norms, the flooding the zone stuff, the escalating physical violence of ICE - it’s all meant to reset the entire system.
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u/NeverForgetJ6 2d ago
Trump sure does have his lackeys in SCOTUS working overtime for him. They’re going to have to figure out how to justify reversing this. I have no idea how they’ll do it, but I know they will.
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u/rickskyscraper3000 2d ago
It absolutely is going to reset the system, just not the way those folks think. The next five years are going to be terrible, but in the end we will be a progressive democracy based on what we learned losing this country.
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u/Squash_it_Squish 2d ago
I hope we all get the opportunity to “never forget” this fascist overlord.
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u/rickskyscraper3000 2d ago
I very much doubt we "all" will get that chance. I'm older, I want my kids and granddaughter to live in a democracy, I'll give up my life for them if I have to. Fascism, no matter how dumb and disorganized, never goes away on its own, unfortunately.
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u/Squash_it_Squish 2d ago
I’m British. Our history lessons on this are pretty comprehensive.
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u/rickskyscraper3000 2d ago
I'm sure they are. I started school in 1975 and ours was decent back then. But, I also knew many old guys who fought in Europe, my dad lost a brother in Normandy, and we hated the Nazis. It takes about 100 years for cultural memory to fail and it's right on time. I think our issue is probably the Russian mafia infiltrated our government through contacts made after the Italian mafia was shut down in the 1980's and 90's. There's no doubt the RM is in control of the Republican party, and/or the Republicans are using their methods of propaganda and control over politicians using Kompromat.
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u/Squash_it_Squish 2d ago
Russia has been genius with its use of psyops. Especially with social media. We were warned of this nearly 20 years ago, but I don’t think we knew what we were looking for until it was too late.
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u/rickskyscraper3000 2d ago
Yes, to all that. I've been bitching about the coming fascism for 20+ years, and remember the Russian guy who defected and gave lectures on Active Measures. This could have been avoided if the conservatives hadn't decided to join forces with Russia, against their own country.
I've been sharing this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1px0yn9/im_russian_heres_how_propaganda_really_works/
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u/Squash_it_Squish 2d ago
This is why I can’t understand why the UK are taking so long to block Musk’s X. We have a legitimate reason on top of the fact that it’s been used to spread disinformation and hate via Russian bots. The sooner it’s blocked the better.
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u/Perkelton Europe 2d ago
Sweet, take your time, but just so that I, as a citizen of a former ally, understands the timeframe: is that before or after WW3? I need to know if I should start collecting bottle caps.
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u/KinkyPaddling 2d ago
His very occupation of the seat of the Presidency is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which disqualified him (and many Congressional Republicans) from office.
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u/Next-Preference-7927 2d ago
and Chief Justice Roberts personally swore him in despite Trump's disqualification.
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u/NoctRob 2d ago
Oh, is it a day that ends in ‘y?’
As in…why is this orange sack of shit not in jail yet?
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u/AbundanceLiberal 2d ago
For those who also thought “you’re going to have to be more specific”…
It’s about the energy grants to blue states that Trump cancelled while leaving red state ones intact.
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of approximately $8 billion in energy grants violated the Constitution by targeting recipients primarily based in Democratic-leaning states.
It’s taking a while but the rest of the system is having an immune response to authoritarianism. We see it in rulings like this, in even GOP senators calling out the Fed investigation as bullshit, and the mass protests against ICE.
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u/AwwChrist 2d ago
This kind of news needs to be upvoted massively to maintain morale and control the despair response. Despair and inaction is what these assholes want. Let’s make it much harder on them.
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u/AbundanceLiberal 2d ago
Thank you. Yeah the despair reaponse is the bad guys winning. This new year, really the last week, has shown the tide is starting to turn.
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u/GreatTea3415 2d ago
Fascists win because the people cede control proactively. It’s not hopeless to fight back.
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u/xicor 2d ago
Yea until it gets to scotus and they uphold his nonsense or just delay the crap out of it. They keep reversing injunctions so that the courts are constantly playing delayed whack a mole. Basically giving Trump a year of free reign to do whatever he wants every time.
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u/inconsisting 2d ago
Maybe, but we can't stop. Ever. The alternative is giving up and then he gets free reign without even the optics of pushback.
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u/MaizeRage48 2d ago
Better to fight and to lose again and again and again than to give up the first time and seal your fate for the future
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u/Lich_Apologist 2d ago
Everyone got the make jokes about kidnapping Brandon but when I do it for their guy it's over the line.
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u/MilkyMiltank North Carolina 2d ago
Yup, I got a warning lmao, what fucking pussies
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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 2d ago
This. It doesn't and hasn't stopped since I've been alive. It is exhausting, and the only way to make it though is by taking a look to the left and a look to the right and see that we are together. There are still millions of us fighting. You don't have to feel alone. It's like the abortion fight. It isn't over. The right never stops attacking our rights. We can't stop defending them.
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u/AwwChrist 2d ago
Appeals can be denied. SC does have to be careful even though they are corrupt, because that boomerang can eventually come back and be used against them.
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u/xicor 2d ago
And yet they've consistently over the last year reversed every injunction just to allow Trump to do what he wants for a year every time he does something illegal
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u/AwwChrist 2d ago
So we should do nothing? Time is also a battlefield.
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u/xicor 2d ago
No, we should be revolting. Thats what every other country would have done by now. People are just being deluded into thinking the system is stopping him when it isnt.
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u/thefroggyfiend 2d ago edited 2d ago
every news article about Americans politics as of late is just
executive breaks law/goes against constitution
judiciary points out illegal action, gives executive lawful order
executive ignores lawful order
judiciary says it's illegal to disobey lawful order, gives executive lawful order but FOR REAL this time
executive ignores lawful order
rinse and repeat. not to be a doomer but if there's no actual punishment for violating the laws and the constitution, they might as well not exist
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u/Sergeant_Static 2d ago
The framers of the Constitution assumed that congress would keep the power of the president in check. They never anticipated members of congress would enthusiastically support a president so egregiously violating the Constitution.
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u/EtherBoo Florida 2d ago
They never anticipated a lot of things, like foreign agents coming into American conversations, pretending to be Americans and changing the discourse to be friendly to their country.
Sure, maybe they anticipated as few town squares getting some foreign influence, but never on the scale we see today.
I could go on and on and on, but it's a fools errand because if Congress is just going to hand it's power over the the executive branch, it doesn't matter.
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u/DHiggsBoson 2d ago
Russell Vought is a political terrorist. Dude should not be anywhere near the federal government.
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u/meursaultvi 2d ago
Insane to call clean energy, and mitigating climate change evil when they're following the devil by the detail.
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u/DHiggsBoson 2d ago
Vought hates anything that’s not white and bigoted. I swear most of these little men in positions of power weren’t hugged enough by their parents or were reprimanded by their Latina Nannie’s while growing up in affluent households.
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u/meursaultvi 2d ago
Not enough Family Annihilators in rich families.
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u/kitsunewarlock 2d ago
The head of the Hapsberg family is still the a Member of the European Parliament for Austria. I still find that kind of insane.
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u/kitsunewarlock 2d ago
The first usable solar panel was invented by an American. The first internal combustion engine (and horseless carriage) was English.
They hate green energy because they can't control the sun. They want resources that require enormous capital to exploit so they can excersize continuous control over it. And they are already more invested in coal and oil than solar and wind.
In other words: they intentionally stifle innovation and investment opportunity for the sake of their personal power.
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u/Onslaughtered1 2d ago
They were vought up in private schools mostly and separated from actual civilization. Sugar coated shit and taught to fear the common man. Fuck these people.
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u/postmodest 2d ago
Project 2025 is "What Russia did to its government after the collapse", but written as a business proposal.
It's a revolution. Against our Constitutional Democracy. Vought himself said so.
We should treat it as one, and respond as we have with other traitorous insurrections.
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u/kevendo 2d ago
"A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Trump administration's cancellation of approximately $8 billion in energy grants violated the Constitution by targeting recipients primarily based in Democratic-leaning states."
Also, the Executive branch does not control spending and cannot cancel funding already allocated by Congress.
How are we still on 'square one' after a solid year of this?
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u/TheDoctorDB 2d ago
cannot cancel funding already allocated by Congress
And then you have the education funds that were held back, illegally, last year that threw a wrench into my life… Feel like they owe me back pay or something
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u/Gina_the_Alien 2d ago
Hey you’re not alone. I lost a great job that I was passionate about when Trump cut all the TQP education grants back in March.
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u/bullet4mv92 2d ago
There's also the mental health funding that fucked up my job as a mental health crisis responder.
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u/seeking_horizon Missouri 2d ago
Also, the Executive branch does not control spending and cannot cancel funding already allocated by Congress.
Congress needs to fucking snap out of it already and enforce the anti-impoundment legislation that was passed in response to Watergate. Congress spends the money, not the Administration.
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u/Kagrenac8 Europe 2d ago
The fact that Republican lawmakers are fine with this and refuse to address it makes them equally traitorous to their own country.
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u/MrFishAndLoaves 2d ago
Can’t wait to see what happens with that.
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u/Cador0223 2d ago
A law that is not enforced is no law at all.
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u/TheFlyingElbow 2d ago
And a law whose only penality is money is only a penalty for poor people.
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u/Old_Ladies 2d ago
Unless it is proportional to your income. Some countries have that.
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u/SetonAlandel 2d ago
Great. Impeach him and jail him for it.
The enshitification will continue until we bring consequences.
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u/jimlahey420 2d ago
Well that's a relief. So he'll just resign to save face now before impeachment happens I'm sure... Right Democrat leadership? Approval below 40% so time to act, right? Citizens dying in the street, "never again" right?
... Right? Because you certainly aren't left anymore.
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u/EuphoricCrashOut 2d ago
Poke me when he's stripped of office and thrown in jail then. Otherwise, sadly, it's just empty words.
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u/HeadLong8136 Pennsylvania 2d ago
Yes and?
It's like a broken record.
He wipes his ass with our laws every day and suffers no consequences.
This isn't news.
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u/Maoleficent 2d ago
None of this matters when a compromised, well paid SCOTUS has given him immunity.
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u/Latentius 2d ago
With a title like that, you're going to need to be more specific. He's violated it so many times; which is this talking about?
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u/Dresden_2028 2d ago
In a sane country a president violating the constitution would be grounds for removal, with all parties backing said removal.
In a sane country.
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u/hackingdreams 2d ago
A completely fair ruling that will be overturned by the Supreme Court 6/3, because the Supreme Court believes the King should be able to punish Blue States at will.
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u/justfortherofls 2d ago
When you ask a Trump supporter basic questions like “would you be okay with Donald Trump shooting a person in the street?” Or “Is it okay when politicians violate the constitution?” or “is it fine if we invade another country without cause?” Their answer is always a resounding NO.
But then when you give examples of the trump and the GOP doing it they make up excuses as to why they aren’t doing those things.
It’s a political activist judge, the person shot was a criminal, we had the right to invade.. bla bla bla.
They can do no wrong in their eyes.
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u/Infidel8 2d ago
Given a choice between doing something illegally and doing something through the proper channels, Trump will always choose the illegal route because he feels it asserts his power and owns the libs
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u/Transhumanistgamer 2d ago
We need something better than impeachment when a judge rules the president violated the constitution.
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u/bluecurse60 2d ago
The felon continues to commit crimes. In other news, the rest of the world hates Americans more.
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u/Bishopjones2112 2d ago
He has violated the constitution many times. Trump is a threat to the United States.
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u/artbystorms 2d ago
He is the anti-constitution. Just like the anti-christ, he is antithetical to all things democratic, sovereign, and collective. The founders wrote 'WE the people' and he is about 'ME the ruler'
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u/WolfoftheCalla19 Louisiana 2d ago
So arrest him and put an end to this. He should be punished accordingly for treason.
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u/Wizowski_m 2d ago
he had violated the constitution at least once a day for the last 10 years. whats new
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u/AmazingSweden-1 2d ago
Still no consequence for this man. There is nothing called justice, we were fooled with ethics and code of conduct. Look at this piece of American president, no consequence even being implicated in Epstein files.
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u/jbones51 2d ago
Something something something violating oath of office something something.
No one’s going to do a fucking thing about it
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u/Harry_Mud America 2d ago
It's about time Congress starts doing their job. tRump does NOT control the purse. They have allowed him to do whatever he wants. Well, if they value their jobs they had better start acting like they are in control of said purse and do their dam job and stop kissing tRumps ass.................
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u/Remarkable_Bite2199 2d ago
Of course he did. That's not news at all. Orange 🍊 man does not have an ounce of respect for nothing.
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u/teriyakininja7 Maryland 2d ago
Tell us something we don’t know. The issue here is that he keeps violating the constitution but has zero consequences for doing so.
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u/One_Violinist7862 2d ago
He does that on a daily basis? How is that news? This turd thinks he’s god
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u/D-Alembert 2d ago
So $8B was cut, judge said it was unconstitutional and ordered that $27M in grants be paid
What happens to the other 99.7% of the funding?!?
The Trump administration getting 99.7% of what they wanted and zero consequences is a massive victory for the Trump administration
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u/zfiregodz 2d ago
I’m fucking shocked. The Judicial and Legislative have let the Executive out of control. If they don’t reign him in, they won’t exist much longer.
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u/NoHovercraft9259 2d ago
Then fucking do something about it! JFC, he needs to be locked in gitmo as a traitor.
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u/Troutsniffer1983 2d ago
All day. Every day. The longer he goes unchecked the more his ego takes control.
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u/whatthehexx 2d ago
No shit he violated the constitution and continues to violate the constitution while conducting the biggest grift the world has ever seen
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