CantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoDonald Trump says he never swore oath "to support the Constitution"www.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1741arrow-down120cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1721arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump says he never swore oath "to support the Constitution"www.newsweek.comCantaloupeLifestyle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square156fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarestolid_agnostic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up29·10 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