A President swears to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." [View all]

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.