Donald Trump, Enemy of the Constitution

REASON ^ | 3 Feb 16 | Damon Root

[elhombrelibre]

Trump has trashed free speech, religious liberty, property rights, and limits on executive power.

Here's a question for you to puzzle over. Can you name the single most unconstitutional thing Donald Trump has proposed or endorsed so far in the 2016 presidential race?

Not an easy question to answer, is it? Do you start with Trump's efforts to suppress immigration by gutting the 14th Amendment? Or do you perhaps point to Trump's long war on the Fifth Amendment and its protections for property rights, as exemplified by Trump's embrace of boundless eminent domain powers for the government and Trump's own shameful record of seeking to personally profit when government officials seize homes and businesses and then hand the bulldozed land over to crony capitalist real estate developers?

Either of the above could serve as an answer to my opening question. But when it comes to Trump's unconstitutional agenda, there are plenty of other noxious options to choose from.

What about Trump's call for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States? That stance manages to offend multiple constitutional principles in a single bound, including such bedrock concepts as religious liberty, due process, and equal protection.

Speaking of religious liberty, there is also Trump's belief that the government should have the power to close mosques. Needless to say, the First Amendment plainly forbids the government from taking the truly authoritarian step of shuttering houses of worship, be they mosques, churches, synagogues, or temples.

[enduserindy]

It’s a rant, no logic involved.

[Axeslinger]

Guess what chief? My post 77 applies to you too.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Are you having your period?

Watch out your hypocrisy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Guess what, you can defend a hunk of paper with your life but if there’s no country to carry it out, that was indeed a vain pursuit!

[Hostage]

No one cares about your rants.

[Axeslinger]

The brave keyboard commandos should maybe do more than flex their fingers.

And you impugn my patriotism or love of country, you can kiss my ass. Frickin jackass brown shirt wannabes

[HiTech RedNeck]

I speak the truth and that is made to stick by the Name Above All Names. Tell Him to kiss your ass if you dare.

[HiTech RedNeck]

‘Cause He’ll “kiss” it with a scourge named Satan. Until you don’t feel so smart any more.

[FredZarguna]

Wrong. Most of his lawsuits he's backed out of. Due process isn't free speech, and launching frivolous lawsuits against anyone who questions you is abuse of process.

Trump is a phony. He has to defend the fake image he's created of himself by suing people.

As for your screed: TL;DR.

[FredZarguna]

Are you having your period?

You asked for examples. You got 'em. Your response to being smacked down is juvenile.

Watch out your hypocrisy.

Remind me who I've sued.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In your personal attacks.

You are the one acting like an itty bitty baby.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You’re so bitter because 99.999999% of people who deal with Trump never get served and never even fear it.

[FredZarguna]

100% of people who deal with most normal people never get served. The fact that tRump has sued — unsuccessfully — more people than just about anyone on the planet is what matters, and not some meaningless percentages.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Something has you bitter, bitter, bitter.

Usually these are big media kerfuffles or huge-dollar business disputes.

If you want to talk evil lawfare, Trump does not even scratch the surface. How about patent trolls?

[FredZarguna]

There was no personal attack. You asked for facts, you got them. You replied with a misogynist trivialization. I'm sorry your Messiah has feet of clay. It's nothing personal. He simply is a phony and a poseur. All the facts, including 5 different changes of registration and donations to numerous questionable politicians back that claim up, as does the fact the he seems to have a really unusual penchant for going after anyone who questions his net worth. I guess you won't ask yourself why that matters to him so much, or why he feels the need to silence them.

Trump can say anything he wants. But we know people by their fruits. And Trump's fruits have been consistently rotten.

[FredZarguna]

Not bitter. Simply telling you the obvious facts about your idolatry.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It took three sentences for you to come up with another smear... misogynist (which really has me puzzled too).

Congratulations, you prove my point from the viewpoint of “consider the source.”

You are being baited into bitterness and the more you get called on it, the more you call on those devils.

Get over it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Keep reaching for Satan’s arm. But be careful because one day it will yank you down to hell.

[FredZarguna]

Oh, "are you having your period?" was not a misogynist trivialization?

OK. Run that past your wife or your mom, next time one of them smacks you down with a factual dispute of your position. Then get back to me after you regain consciousness.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And, trick of all tricks... Satan will have maneuvered you into WANTING that hell. You’ll go there with your own permission!