Letter: No one willing to tell President Trump his actions are unconstitutional

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship. Any person who has taken fifth-grade civics knows that the 14th Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution grants citizenship to every person born in the country. Yet when Trump proposed to do away with birthright citizenship, not one person in the administration spoke out against this “blatantly unconstitutional” act. Thousands of lawyers are employed by the federal government and elected to Congress.



Was not one of them familiar with the 14th Amendment? U.S. District Judge John Coughenour went on to say: “I have been on the bench for over four decades.

I can’t remember another case whether the question presented was as clear. He asked, “Where were the lawyers” when the decision to sign the executive order was made. He said that it “boggled” his mind that a member of the bar would claim the order was constitutional.

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