Friday, November 23, 2018

The ACLU had Trump pegged even before he was the Republican nomination.

But, even since "belief" overtook fact from esteemed and real experts of the American landscape, their warnings were not heeded.

The one question I have since this point in time, is, how much of the Trump agenda that is blatantly unconstitutional belongs to the agenda of the Federalist Society?

July 13, 2016
By Anthony D. Romero

Last June, Donald Trump (click here) rode down the escalator of his Trump Tower to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” to deliver a message: He, Donald J. Trump, was announcing his candidacy to become the Republican Party’s 2016 nominee for president of the United States of America. During his speech, Trump basked in the crowd — which included paid actors cheering his name and wearing t-shirts with his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again” — before uttering some of the statements that would make him such a polarizing force in American politics....

...In the event of a Trump presidency, we have undertaken a constitutional analysis of his most controversial policy proposals. These include his pledges to deport over 11 million undocumented immigrants, to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to surveil American Muslims and their houses of worship, to torture again, and to revise libel laws. We have found them all wanting, to say the least. According to our analysis, Trump’s proposals taken together would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution....