CantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoDonald Trump says he never swore oath "to support the Constitution"www.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1747arrow-down120cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1727arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump says he never swore oath "to support the Constitution"www.newsweek.comCantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square155fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarestolid_agnostic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up29·7 months agoThat is the sophistry part. It clearly was intended to be a higher level of oath that included the lower one. Watch: SCOTUS will say that the president actually doesn’t have to support the Constitution.
That is the sophistry part. It clearly was intended to be a higher level of oath that included the lower one. Watch: SCOTUS will say that the president actually doesn’t have to support the Constitution.
Textualism at it’s finest