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    4 days ago

    You can’t point to something he’s clearly violated? What? The most obvious and clear example is the emoluments clause, but it’s easy to add in the first and fourth amendments. (Preference given to Christianity, and search and seizure without probable cause, as examples.)

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      Let me clarify my point. Those are all abstract things that require Congress or the Supreme Court to step in and draw lines. We’ve had in god we trust as the national motto for decades. There is a gray area there that can be argued and low-engagement voters just see it as noise.

      But everyone can count to three. Everyone knows you get two terms and no more. Everyone knows you have to win an election to be President. It is unequivocal. Inarguable. So I think it carries weight in a way that those other violations of the constitution have not.

      I never meant to create ambiguity around his illegal actions, just draw attention to how this act would be distinct from the rest.