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bdamomma

(63,830 posts)
Mon May 6, 2019, 09:05 PM May 2019

Just An Article Back To What Trump Thinks About The Constitution or the Congress

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/01/did-president-trump-label-the-constitution-or-house-and-senate-rules-as-archaic/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d4d980ae7642

Did President Trump label the Constitution or House and Senate rules as ‘archaic’?

snip of article

The Independent (U.K.) writes, “Donald Trump slams ‘archaic’ US constitution that is ‘really bad’ for the country.” The Guardian (U.K.) likewise writes, “Donald Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days.” Salon picks that up, saying,


Donald Trump doesn’t like the “archaic” Constitution: “It’s really a bad thing for the country”




Article from 2017. Very relevant today.



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Just An Article Back To What Trump Thinks About The Constitution or the Congress (Original Post) bdamomma May 2019 OP
It would've been fun to see what originalist and former SCJ Antonin Scalia yonder May 2019 #1

yonder

(9,663 posts)
1. It would've been fun to see what originalist and former SCJ Antonin Scalia
Mon May 6, 2019, 09:26 PM
May 2019

had to say about trumps "archaic" comment.

Mr. bestest-memory-in-the-history-of-the-world seems to have forgotten a detail he swore an oath to. Something about "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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