Posted on 07/18/2016 7:24:06 AM PDT by PROCON
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a 28-page report Friday arguing most of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s governing agenda is unconstitutional, and promises to keep a running tally of all Trump’s policy goals that run afoul of the Constitution.
Titled “The Trump Memos,” the analysis encompasses the New York billionaire’s proposals on immigration, torture, libel, abortion, and government surveillance. It effectively serves as a blueprint for the legal arguments the ACLU would marshall when challenging Trump’s initiatives if elected president.
“Donald Trump’s proposed policies, if carried out, would trigger a constitutional crisis,” ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero wrote Wednesday in the Washington Post. “By our reckoning, a Trump administration would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth amendments if it tried to implement his most controversial plans.”
“But we need to be prepared because the very freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution could come under a sustained attack by a President Trump in the Oval Office,” he continued. “If that day comes, make no mistake: We’ll be seeing him in court.”
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They said nothing when bammy violated the Constitution multiple times.
Ruling with a Pen and a Phone is OK though?
Funny they only care about the constitution and wars when Republicans are in office. I wonder why?
Thats a good one. Also...wonder if they violate any IRS rules
Of course they are, bless their little hearts.
I am sure President Trump will show them all the respect they deserve.
/s
Gee!
All of obama’s agenda has been unconstitutional, and they haven’t made any ruckus about that.
In my defense I can say that the 1960s were a different time in which the Warren court, despite its overreaching in its abundant faults, was expanding the rights of individuals in ways that were arguably principled. Thorny issues like separation of church and state and the privacy rights of individuals were defensible on both sides. Now it is impossible to regard the ACLU as anything other than a rank pressure group which inhabits our jurisprudence with a consistently leftist goal and an unquenchable thirst to exploit the Constitution, no different in purpose or method than the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In reviewing these allegations laid out in this article, one sees no specifics, no precedents, no application of the Constitution to specific facts. What we will see is a guerrilla campaign tailored toward jurists like Ruth Bader Ginsburg to pop out preordained rulings.
Meanwhile, I will have to nurse my pesky but orphaned libertarian tendencies without the dubious help of the ACLU.
Maybe first FEMA Camp occupants?
Would it be unconstitutional if Trump targeted the ACLU with Drone strikes, and then blamed it on Obama.
Just a thought...
Must be why their former Legal Counsel Granny Ginsburg was going after Trump last week.
Amen to that! It seems like the ACLU has become just another leftist infested force against freedom.
And the American Criminal Leftists Union says nothing.
He'll first have to get over his delusion that ""Millions of millions of women -- cervical cancer, breast cancer -- are helped by Planned Parenthood."
‘Amen to that! It seems like the ACLU has become just another leftist infested force against freedom.’
It began that way.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6145
If they were honest in their respect for the Constitution, it would read "promises to keep a running tally of all Trump’s policy goals Obama's policies instituted by executive order that run afoul of the Constitution."
Which specific "freedoms" did he name? (crickets)
fund-raising ploy....
for libtards
THE LAW IS THE LAW ....
OBOZO FLAUNTED IT
trump will force it up the butt of the ACLU and all the other Libtard groups ...
THAT IS WHAT THEY FEAR ...
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