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Trump has attacked/is attacking the constitution in innumerable ways.

""Trump declares his own government's statements about census defeat to be 'FAKE!'"
He's considering an executive order to overrule the Supreme Court and usurp the power of Congress to conduct a census."

Trump’s Attacks on the Constitution

FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE
May 9, 2019

“Trump is attempting to rewrite the Constitution in order to cover up his transgressions, and is making clear that he believes the rule of law doesn’t apply to him.”

We are faced today with a direct threat to our constitutional system of government.

In a historically unprecedented move, President Trump has declared .. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/politics/donald-trump-subpoenas.html?module=inline .. that his Administration is not going to comply with any subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives. Trump is attempting to prevent the House from conducting its constitutionally derived powers to exercise oversight of the Executive Branch.

This is an arrogant attack on the nation’s constitutional system of checks and balances by an authoritarian President and it cannot be allowed to stand.

https://democracy21.org/news-press/freds-weekly-note/trumps-attacks-on-the-constitution

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Is Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency Constitutional?

BU’s Robert Sloane on whether border wall meets law’s emergency definition

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/is-trumps-declaration-of-a-national-emergency-constitutional

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No, Mr. President. You Can’t Change the Constitution by Executive Order

By Omar Jadwat, Director, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
October 30, 2018 | 6:00 PM

President Trump said this week that he is preparing an executive order to try to take away the citizenship guarantee in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says that people born in the United States are United States citizens. On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham announced that he would introduce legislation with the same aim.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/road-citizenship/no-mr-president-you-cant-change-constitution-executive-order