Posted on 03/03/2016 11:05:05 AM PST by 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.
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“How can REASON be so IRRATIONAL?”
My 1st thought, also. Thanks, ZULU
He!! yes, crucify the messenger, that’s always am effective strategy.
yes lets fight Jihadists with out NSA.. maybe even CIA... maybe a really harsh cease and desist letter will do it.
They where infiltrated by rats years ago. Pretty much a joke publication in today’s world. Notice how they never hit obumer with anything like this. We all know how constitutional he has been.
What about Patriots that just don’t like him?
Hate is a very strong word to me and it should not be used for someone you merely disagree with. Hate, like it’s opposite, requires action and not words.
The Kelo decision was widely questioned. How could the Court's conservatives have upheld it? The answer is: they upheld it because it is the law. The strictures [of lack thereof] placed on eminent domain are legal questions for legislatures to fix. The eminent domain laws of most states are far too loose, and they allow unscrupulous people like Donald Trump to exploit them for personal gain. They should made more favorable to private property owners; that doesn't make the exploiters of the law enemies of the Constitution.
There are lots of reasons to oppose Trump without taking up leftist hysteria as "arguments." The most important is that he's lying about being a conservative, and that's more than enough reason to disqualify him.
Arguments have been made that these are plausible.
Would it were our dear USSC were that predictable.
No, the failure of the lawsuit in Illinois did not furnish any dispositive information. The court punted on a technicality, just like they have typically done with such hot potato. No ordinary judge wants to get himself or herself Arkancide minded enemies. A USSC muckety muck might think differently, because they are so well protected by both custom and law.
This guy’s no friend of the Constitution. We have been forewarned.
Obviously, they keep doing it post after post, day after day. I used to like Cruz, but after seeing what his fanatics are like, I just wish him and them to go away.
I think this one is a mixture of both.
Wow, another nothing burger from the nothingness.
Should be renamed - reasonless.
Tell me stratboy, what have you done to calm the antics of Trump supporters?
The standard for a public figure is actual malice. Trump is a public figure. He's no different from any other public figure, he isn't entitled to any special protections, and there are lots of public figures with far more serious complaints than him.
Trump threatened to sue Forbes for honestly evaluating his net worth, which is well below his exaggerated claims. Talk about vexatious litigation.
He's a baby. Like the babies on various college campuses, he thinks that his personal anger "triggers" are worthy of tearing down the free speech rights of other people. They aren't. He needs to develop a thicker skin or get the hell out of the public arena.
By being 100% random, Trump is automatically 50% better than the Uniparty which opposes Conservatism 100% of the time.
That there’s funny.
As if all his quarrels were about hot button irritants?
You have not established that this is the case, and yet you sweep on to a personal attack based on that premise yourself.
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