I think the Constitution has to be the highest law in the land, the place we turn when all else breaks down. I know it’s old, but it’s what we have to fight back with, and we shouldn’t concede any ground without a fight.

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
    26·
    9 months ago

    Anything to do with money, such as yesterday’s fiasco. As was mentioned in many articles yesterday Congress has the “power of the purse”, meaning they control the budget and taxes (dictated by several parts of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution). Trump unilaterally decided to stop payment on grants and funds that were already previously approved by Congress.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    9 months ago

    The birthright citizenship one is the main one that comes to mind. I do not think all of them are, that would be stretching things.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    19·
    9 months ago

    anything congressionally mandated which is all the money related things. This was actually something that was already played out in the nixon administration so if the trump rules the other way they would once again be ignoring precedence which is part of the reason we are as fucked as we are now.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
    16·
    9 months ago

    The first one that comes to mind is the order on birthright citizenship. Most of others I’ve looked into are in the borderlands of maybe. I seem to recall LegalEagle did a video on it, but I haven’t seen it yet. Haven’t had time.

    Here’s the video if you’re interested.

    https://youtu.be/GBe8BgjzLwk

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    One of the biggest problems with this country is that most of them aren’t unconstitutional. Sure there are exceptions (which others will name), but we’ve been building up the president to be a king for a very long time. We’ve counted on elections and Congress to prevent that, which is amazing that it didn’t implode sooner.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 months ago

      Elections and congress were built upon the idea of shame. As in, no one could possibly do that and still expect to be reelected. A felon with a fraud conviction and a history of naked nepotism isn’t going to ask people to donate money with a straight face.