Constitutional Violations by Donald Trump

  It must be fun to be pals with the President of the United States, unless the president is a megalomaniac {a person obsessed with his own power). Rudolf Giuliani fully understands each legal rule I am about to state.   In politics anything goes.   However, in law there are rules enacted to prevent frivolous vexatious lawsuits. The fact that the president dreams of throwing out millions of votes does not excuse Mr. Giuliani arguing a frivolous lawsuit in Pennsylvania yesterday (Tuesday, November 17).                A vexatious lawsuit is a legal action brought solely to harass or subdue an adversary.               It can be frivolous, burdensome or unwarranted.               A judge may issue sanctions against the party and or his lawyer.      ...

    It was announced on Sunday that fourteen pacific countries had signed a free trade agreement with China. Eight years of diplomacy produced a symbolic online economic coming together dedicated to increase trade among the countries. Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines signed with China and eight other countries. Expert economists can be counted on to study the nuances and long run implications of what is called the Trans Pacific Partnership, TRP. Here are some preliminary reactions. 1. Trump’s ham handed bullying may have damaged America’s long-range economic position in the Pacific. 2. President-elect Biden now faces a serious diplomatic and economic problem. 3. Fair trade appears to be the wave of the future with Trump’s policies of trade tariffs being an example of what not to do in the international economy. 4. China plays the long economic game better than we do. Mariana Mazzucato in her book, The Value of Every Thing points out th...

  INDICATIONS THE COURT WILL INTERVENE IN TRUMP BIDEN CASE 1. Justice  Kavanaugh wrote in a recent Wisconsin case “counting late arriving ballots could flip the results.” He also wrote that there were “suspicions of impropriety.” That was an adoption of President Trump’s false narrative of fraudulent absentee ballots. 2. The court tied four to four on a Pennsylvania ballet deadline extension case. It is not a stretch to see Justice Barrett as the fifth vote to change the vote for president. 3. President Trump has been bullying the Court in recent days. Friday October 30 th  , the Daily Mail reported Trump saying , “The decision is CRAZY and so bad for our country… the election should end on November third.” 4. The Trump lawyers have filed over 30 cases around the country. The Supreme Court can pick one or more cases to review. They can pick the best cases for Trump. It only takes four votes to grant review. The identity of the justices granting review is often se...

            President Trump has said he will announce he won the election if it looks like he is ahead early. That is according to three sources close to him. (Axios)                President Trump also tweeted on Friday, October 30, “The Election should end on Nov. 3 rd , not weeks later!” “You would think you want to have the votes counted, tabulated, finished by the evening of Nov. 3,” he said at a campaign event a week earlier according to the New York Times .    Trump stated regarding Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf , “We don’t want to be in a position where he’s allowed, every day, to watch ballots come in." (Vox)  Based on Trump’s long standing attacks on absentee ballots, he will then go to the United States Supreme Court and demand those ballots be thrown out. Justice Kavanaugh and others are prepared to obey his demand. The United States Constitution Article I section IV places “the ti...

  Some conservative justices on the United States Supreme Court are threatening to change the Pennsylvania law on voting after the fact. Of the three separate branches of the Federal Government described in the Constitution, the only branch that is specifically empowered to do that is the congress. Article I section IV provides, “The time place and manner of holding elections for senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the Legislative thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations…” By all rules of interpretation, only congress can change state rules. The Congressional power is exclusive. Substituting the opinions of five justices for the decision of both houses of Congress concerning state voting rules shows a lack of respect for the founders of our country who thought otherwise. There are many other prudential rules, which should convince those justices to not give the election to Donald Trump. 1. They should care abo...

The house impeached Justice Samuel Chase in 1805. Chief Justice William Rehnquist in a scholarly book, Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson , details the charges against Chase. “He conducted himself in a manner highly arbitrary, oppressive and unjust” details are set out that critique his performance in a trial. Like the stacking of the court by leader McConnell, the impeachment of Chase had a political tone. The scenario to consider is: 1. Biden wins the presidency. 2. A majority of the court gives the presidency to Trump. 3. The Democrats retain the house = impeachment of one or more justices who ignore the traditional role of the states in governing elections. 4. The Democrats take the Senate = possible conviction of one or more justices.   See: Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson Copyright 2020 James J Brosnahan

  The public disgrace called gerrymandering is voter theft. It keeps legislative incumbents in power, discriminates against minorities, and to some extent accounts for the polarization of our democratic system. The scholarly verdict is in:  1. Candidates are less likely to run when their party has been disadvantaged by a districting plan.  2. Candidates, who do run, often are less qualified, because of lack of competition.  3. Supporters are less likely to contribute (for these three points see Stephanopoulos 2020),  4. There is partisan unfairness in district drawing, and distortion of representation, which has a modest pro-Republican impact, and it is deliberate (See Stephanopoulos 2018),  5. The prevailing party rigs the districts in their favor and reduces the other party’s power (see Kang).  6. Gerrymandering in seven states accounted for the Republican Party’s manufactured majority in the U.S. House of Representations following the ...