
It's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen.
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It's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen.

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start.

the United States Constitution leaves no room for any form of discrimination.… Today a barrier to justice has been removed.

You've got Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the federal government and important services, and there's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority...The actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation.

In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign—the fight: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.

You've got Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the federal government and important services, and there's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority... the actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation.

U.S. Attorneys are not the President's lawyers. They are the United States' lawyers. You didn't pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution.

I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president.

It's about her character and commitment to the Constitution. She didn't bow out of this job when she found out Trump was going to force her to act illegally.

In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign—the fight: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start.

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start.

This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like when you gut the Constitution, and you install yourself as the sole power.

It would not help us to be working with Republicans at the very moment the Constitution is being lit on fire.

We are not going to sit around while you go ahead and desecrate our Constitution.

I personally believe from my legal training, that all of it is illegal, regardless of which mixed signals they’re sending out. The question is, how quickly we can get to court and whether or not we will have more judges that are more loyal to Trump or if they are more loyal to the Constitution and the oath they swore.

Such acts of sue, seal, and settle, to me, is a violation of the Constitution.