A President swears to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
It goes -- without needing to be said -- that he or she will follow the law in doing so.
Pretty darn clear. Yet SCOTUS found a way just the other day to say that the 14th Amendment doesn't say what the 14th Amendment says:
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Seems in keeping with modern GOP hypocrisy. In World War 2, the motto of the USN Seabees (Construction Battalion) was: "The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a bit longer."
How Henry Kissinger put it: "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
It's taken a bit of time, but the treasons of Nixon are now Old School A-OK. It is sickening to see that this has been realized.
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Will Trump Hang?
BY MATTHEW STEVENSON
CounterPunch, JUNE 16, 2023
It’s not too far-fetched to imagine that Donald Trump is guilty of high treason, that is, giving “Aid and Comfort” to the enemies of the United States.
From his two impeachment trials and from his many pending criminal investigations, we know that to remain in high office Trump was willing to obstruct justice, lie to Congress, send thugs to Ukraine, blackmail foreign officials, withhold military aid approved by Congress, pay off porn stars, threaten election officials counting votes, imagine voter fraud, gin up slates of phony electors, march goons to the Capitol, cheer on attacks with hockey sticks against Washington police, and try to hang his vice-president.
With that as his record, why would it be a stretch to surmise that some of the purloined documents and state secrets stashed away in Mar-a-Lago shower rooms have ended up in the files of foreign operatives who would do harm to the country?
SNIP…
In the Oval Office, according to numerous published accounts, Trump’s aides had no luck whatsoever in enticing the president to read any of the state papers associated with the presidency.
No matter what was happening, Trump was indifferent to the reports in his in-box and governed entirely from what he learned watching Fox News. That he held on to his briefing books does not mean he read or understood them.
CONTINUES…
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/16/will-trump-hang/
Might help reestablish the idea that no one is above the law.
With Donald J Trump, "Top Secret Document" means about the same as a roll of toilet paper: shit to be used for shit and stuff.
So, when the pee-resident who talked with Putin in secret is charged with espionage, we must consider who will watch the watchers? Evidently, even when a former pee-resident (or Defendant) is a Republican, that's not the Supreme Court's job.
