The President has no power—none—to change individual *state* rules regarding mail-in voting by Executive Order.
As usual, this is just bluster—designed not to lead to any actual action, but only to further create a cloud around an election potentially decided by mail-in ballots. https://t.co/kQleqAGRxm
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 3, 2020
Tag: Constitution
James Mattis Denounces Trump as Threat to Constitution –
In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another.
Source: James Mattis Denounces Trump as Threat to Constitution – The Atlantic
150 Years Later: The Promise and Pitfalls of the Constitution’s 15th Amendment
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which was adopted to give Black people access to the ballot after the Civil War. The amendment has retained its promise but, unfortunately, the robust democracy that it envisioned remains just out of reach. Today, we should honor the life of the momentous amendment by remembering that the fight to keep it continues.
Source: 150 Years Later: The Promise and Pitfalls of the Constitution’s 15th Amendment | Portside
Will the Constitution Fail Again?
Extreme worship of the Constitution is a feature of U.S. life. It’s been that way for a long time. Even so, the zeal with which it has been deployed throughout the current impeachment process is a wonder to behold.
Source: Will the Constitution Fail Again? – CounterPunch.org
The Constitution’s Case Against High-Interest Loans
Advocates are arguing that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits usurious loans.
Source: The Constitution’s Case Against High-Interest Loans – The Atlantic
The Real Constitutional Crisis: The Constitution
It has been amusing to hear liberal commentators say over and over that the malignant racist rogue president Donald “I am the World’s Greatest Person” Trump is precisely the sort of terrible tyrant the United States Founding Fathers had in mind when they devised their “genius” Constitutional system of “checks and balances.” The Tiny-fingered, Tangerine-Tinted, More
Source: The Real Constitutional Crisis: The Constitution – CounterPunch.org
Trump foots the bill
The framers worried about executives who might be vulnerable to bribery or loyalties to foreign governments
Source: Here’s What the Framers of the Constitution Said About Impeachment
President Trump Is at War with the Rule of Law. This Won’t End Well.
Do Americans still have a government? I do not know. What I do know is that President Trump and the upper echelons of the executive branch are at war with the legislative branch, the rule of law, the constitution, federal civil servants and the American people.
Source: President Trump Is at War with the Rule of Law. This Won’t End Well. | Portside
How Proslavery Was the Constitution? | by Nicholas Guyatt | The New York Review of Books
Were the Founding Fathers responsible for American slavery? William Lloyd Garrison, the celebrated abolitionist, certainly thought so. In an uncompromising address in Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, Garrison denounced the hypocrisy of a nation that declared that “all men are created equal” while holding nearly four million African-Americans in bondage. The US Constitution was hopelessly implicated in this terrible crime, Garrison claimed: it kept free states like Massachusetts in a union with slave states like South Carolina, and it increased the influence of slave states in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College by counting enslaved people as three fifths of a human being. When Garrison finished excoriating the Founders, he pulled a copy of the Constitution from his pocket, branded it “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell,” and set it on fire.
Source: How Proslavery Was the Constitution? | by Nicholas Guyatt | The New York Review of Books
