Trump’s Pen vs. the Constitution

A Dangerous Pen: The Executive Orders Stirring Chaos

It’s been widely reported, and common knowledge, that the current President’s signing of “over 100 executive orders” since retaking office, is unprecedented. Some have been described as little more than “hate-filled releases”, while many have caused unnecessary pain and hardship. Dozens have resulted in court cases that the administration has lost.

No executive order has the potential to do more permanent damage to our constitutional system than the one Trump signed, in late March, targeting free and fair Elections, on which we have previously discussed.

Trump’s Power Grab: Attacks on Democracy and Dissent

His aim is to appear as an autocrat, but, it doesn’t mean he’s all powerful. Observers indicate that “he’s asserting powers he does not have, tramples over federalism and contravenes the Constitution’s plain text.”

From seeking to control elections, to disregarding court orders, to illegally detaining legal immigrants and sending them detention centers in El Salvador – without due process, to seeking to cancel birthright citizenship (guaranteed by the 14th Amendment), he wants the public to believe that opposing him is futile, but, it’s not!

This president knows his greatest fear (and weakness) is elections! He has constantly lied about them, because he fears the outcome. His history, since the initial 2016 race, was focused on “if I lose, then the election was rigged” which was a blatant lie, as many of his other claims about his affiliations with Russia.

We now see that he’s attempting to exert more power (via ICE), than he has constitutionally, to remove “protesters of administration policies in the Middle East” from college campuses, cancel educational grants – totaling billions of dollars, if the schools don’t bow to his orders.

The Public Pushback: Lawsuits, Marches, and Growing Resistance

There’s a plethora of civic organizations that have filed lawsuits, against a number of these executive orders, as well as a number of federal judges ruling against many of the administration’s actions against legal immigrants, those with protected status and considering that the Supreme Court’s recent 7-2 ruling, late Friday night, requiring that the administration take necessary actions to return a documented immigrant, back to the U.S., after he was erroneously picked up and sent to El Salvador. In other instances, where agencies that have been decimated, by DOGE, have had orders issued for workers to be brought back to work.

Public sentiment, towards GOP representatives in Congress, has intensified, wherein House members have been advised to avoid holding Town Halls. It’s also been well reported concerning marches. The 50501 group (50 marches, in 50 states in 1 day) and the Hands Off movement, in protest of proposed cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.

As we continue moving forward, the resistance is growing and there’s less of a negative outlook, from voters, on both sides.

There’s no greater work that needs to be done, except making sure the public is accurately informed prior to every scheduled election.