If Trump’s actions (like the ten listed in my post “OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP”) persist, then Donald Trump deserves to be impeached, convicted, and removed from office.
We (the people of the USA) need and deserve a President (whether Republican, Democratic, Independent, or otherwise) that
(1) tells the truth,
(2) obeys our laws,
(3) carries out the funding directives of the Legislature,
(4) honors the decisions of our Judiciary, and
(5) maintains the independent functioning of departments, agencies, and officials tasked with protecting the human rights, civil rights, health, welfare, education, security, etc. of our people. ……..
Trump and his administration are not doing that- quite the opposite, in fact!
Most of these independent entities/roles and their supporting funding and regulations were established by congressional action. If the president wants to change these entities/roles/etc, he must return to the legislature to request that they change those laws. The president has neither the right nor the authority under our Constitution to make these changes independently. Doing so are crimes that certainly qualify as impeachable offences worthy of conviction and removal from office.
When the president does these things, it puts him in the category of an authoritarian dictator rather than the president of a democratic republic. That might well be considered a form of treason.
I understand that many Republicans in our legislature are afraid of President Trump’s power, but he should be equally afraid of theirs. They can remove him from office.
The fact that President Trump is in the same party as the majority of legislators does not give him the right to steal authority from them by disobeying laws based on their legislation. The fact that the majority of legislators are in the same political party as the president does not relieve them of their oath to support and defend the Constitution, including maintaining the balance of powers among the branches of government.
What is the legislature really accomplishing if it sets the precedent of the legislature being subservient to presidents? It may seem OK now when their goals are generally aligned with the president’s, but as is wont to happen, the dominant party will change. Republicans will have contributed to the degradation of our democracy and seriously worsened the impact of their own loss. They will suffer under the whims of a new leader who does not hold their views and has the power to run right over theirs.
I call on all of our legislators to use your influence to stop our current president from overreaching his authority and disobeying our Constitution and laws. If not successful soon, then use your power to impeach, convict, and remove him from office.
Graham Rouse
gmr@RouseTECH.com
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