Similarities to Founders’ grievances

The United States is a nation of laws based on the U.S. Constitution. It doesn’t take a law degree or judge’s robe to know that an executive order ending birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and unlawful. All you need is a high school course in civics to know that an amendment to the Constitution is required to end birthright citizenship.

Why would President Trump sign an unlawful nationwide order? Why would the Supreme Court tell the lower courts that they couldn’t issue a nationwide injunction to block this illegal order?

The answer to question one can be found in the pages of Project 2025, a blueprint for ultraright white nationalists, which Trump denied knowledge of during campaign. Many of his executive orders emanate from that manifesto.

The answer to the second question is a little more complex. Before there was a Constitution and before there was a 14th Amendment to the Constitution, there was a Declaration of Independence. President Trump has a copy hanging on the wall of the Oval Office. Has he ever read it?

The Declaration of Independence of 1776 lists 27 grievances against King George III. Two of these grievances are very contemporary when applied to wannabe King Donald and the Roberts Court: “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good” and “He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.”

Diane Niesman

Wheaton