Let me say in the onset that this is not my sentiment but rather that of one of this country’s leading political figures.

To me the US Constitution laid down the laws of the land and set forth detailed the rights of the individual and those rights need to be protected and preserved but recently there have been attacks on those very laws and rights.

Some rally around the flag or the pledge or the national anthem…but none of those are as important as the precepts set down by the Constitution….if they truly want to show their support for this great nation then the preservation of the Constitution should be priority one.

Now the meat of this post.

Trump has told the court that he does not have to support the Constitution as president.

Former President Donald Trump is arguing to a judge in Colorado that he was not required to “support” the Constitution as president, reported Brandi Buchman from Law & Crime.

The argument came as he seeks to dismiss a lawsuit filed in the state by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), seeking to have him disqualified from the ballot in the state under the 14th Amendment. The Insurrection Clause of the amendment prohibits those who have “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding a civil, military, or elected office unless a two-thirds majority of the House and Senate approve.

But Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the specific language of the Constitution argues that this requirement only applies to people in offices who are bound to “support” the Constitution — and the presidency is not one of those offices.

“The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution — not to ‘support’ the Constitution,” said the filing by Trump’s attorneys. “Because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to ‘support’ the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President.”

The former president has already tried to remove the 14th Amendment case to federal court, but this motion was denied.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-wont-support-constitution/

Do you agree…..that the president does not have a duty to follow the Constitution?

Anybody that follows this person deserves none of the guarantees the Constitution provides…..in my opinion.

This is a scary turn of events….but everything about Trump is a scary turn of events.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”