Trench Lawfare: Inside the Battles to Save Democracy From the Trump Administr...
deafguy55 June 26, 2020 in ASL 42 Subscribers Subscribe
Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , See>(Most fundamentally, they have involved what is perhaps the most novel proposition of the Trump’s presidency: that civic virtue does not matter. The traditional presidency places a high value on civic virtue. The effectiveness of the presidential oath of office depends on it pervasively. But Trump has operated his presidency without the slightest pretense of anything of the kind. He makes plain that it’s all about him, not about public service or about pursuit of the national good. This oathlessness, we argue, lies at the core of Trump’s vision, and it underlies many of the specific deployments of presidential power we discuss.)
Title: Lawyers' concerns