December 13, 2023
Letters to the Editor
The Washington Post
Re: “Dictator for a day? Scholars predict Trump’s damage,” (News story by Sarah Ellison, December 13, 2023, A5)
To the Editor:
Princeton University Professor Kim Lane Scheppele’s assertion that, “The minute Trump becomes commander in chief, he could launch a war, assassinate leaders abroad, and more,” is constitutionally and legally flawed. Congress alone is constitutionally authorized to initiate war under Article I, section 8, clause 11. James Madison, father of the Constitution, spoke for every participant in its drafting, debating, and ratification in explaining, "In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department…the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man… War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” President George Washington similarly affirmed, "The Constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore, no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.”
Presidential assassinations are prohibited by Executive Order 12333, section 2.11: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in or conspire to engage in assassination.” The Executive Order is binding on the President unless or until revoked.
Donald Trump’s contempt for the law is only heightened by suggesting presidential invocation of extraconstitutional or extralegal authorities.
Sincerely,
Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan and author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy
300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-465-8728; 703-963-4968 (M)
Email: bruce@feinpoints.com
All true. However, we all know that since 9/11 the U.S. Constitution has been discarded as just some Historical Document that belongs in a museum. AND that EVerything the Clinton Foundation owned DNC FearMongers predict about Trump, Russia, China etc. IS in fact, being perpetrated on the nation and the World by both CorporateFascist political parties, ever since the InsiderTraders WEALTH $$upremacy’s declared, in 1974, “A Crisis of Democracy” (read, TOO MUCH democracy!) following successes of the Civil Rights movement. Between Biden, Obama & The Clintons, the U.S. has forced on this nation, and nations targeted for subjugation, more Anti-democracy /Anti-Worker, Anti-Consumer Protection, more Anti-Family/Anti-Consumer Protections DeRegulation, more Anti-Human & Civil Rights legislation, dropped more bombs on Our planet, murdered more innocent civilians, “Invested” in more GlobalDomination Military Bases and poured more funding into CorporateFascist RegimeChange ResourceRape Coups, and Black Site Torture Facilities than the next 10 nations combined.
All for the “Security” of a few hundred InsiderTrader WEALTH $$upremacist Families, with zero compunction about the death, destruction and UnRepaired devastation their UnMitigated Evil rains down on Humanity in this nation or any other, on The Rarest Resource in the known universe.
In Their “democracy” Company-Store SLAVERY THRIVES in a most immoral, inhumane engineered recidivism U.S. Private Prison Industry Explosion, as does Human Trafficking of & Child Slave Labor by UnAccompanied Minors at the Border, risking their lives to get Refuge from the Drug Cartels & Criminal Puppet Regimes the U.S. Funds & Arms in THEIR nations. U.S. Education is so DeFunded our kids are warehoused in Prison-Like complexes operated with as FEW Adult Salaries as possible, during the most critical Social-Emotional brain-development period in their young lives. Reagan’s Mental Health DeFunding & Union Busting, Clinton’s DeIndustrialization, Wall Street’s global financial crash, Corporate Tax Evasion and DeRegulation has impoverished families and communities to the point that NO ONE can be available for Our children to keep them safe from harm, perpetrated by a throng of ABOVE The Law, predatory profiteering InsiderTrader cannibals like the Sacklers and the corrupt judiciary & politicians funded by them, in this psychopathic CEO Dictator, RICO OCCUPIED “Government” masquerading as “democracy.” Their only goal being to “Secure” at ANY Cost, Impenetrable Control of the State Department Dictated-News Narrative and Militarized Police “Defense” of its wholly egregious UnAccountable Military Budget’s corruption funding via their DoD MagicMoney Laundry.