WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional amendment...
But is this satire? After reading about the judge that put an injunction on Trump's order for all federal agencies to disregard birthright citizenship, I wondered if he was going to go Andrew Jackson "now let him enforce it" on it and tell the agencies to disregard the injunction as well.
It is not. This is exactly what Trump has been doing all along. "Make them stop me," all the way to the Supreme Court. Which is stacked with loyalists, half of whom he put there himself.
You can tell it is the onion because he wouldn’t acknowledge that his orders are unconstitutional and the Supreme Court would clap like seals for all the unconstitutional shit. They are great at finding shit in the constitution that isn’t there like qualified immunity or presidential immunity.