He called it “blatantly unconstitutional”.
You need zero legal skills to recognise that it is a clear contravention of the 14th Amendment.
I suspect it's a test to see how far he can bend the supreme court to his will. If he can get them to accept this, then the 20th and 22nd are wide open to him, he'll be president till he dies.
And the test case is in the supreme court now
The Supreme Court is hearing its first set of Trump-related arguments in the second Trump presidency
www.independent.co.uk
If Trump wins this l, it is the equivalent of the equivalent of the German Enabling Act of 1933.
That is not hyperbole. Here's the main text of that act
en.m.wikipedia.org
"Article 2:
Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat. The rights of the President remain unaffected.
Article 3:
Laws enacted by the Reich government shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Law Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date. Articles 68 to 77 of the Constitution do not apply to laws enacted by the Reich government.
Article 4:
Treaties of the Reich with foreign states, which relate to matters of Reich legislation, shall for the duration of the validity of these laws not require the consent of the legislative authorities. The Reich government shall enact the legislation necessary to implement these agreements."
If Trump can ignore the Constitution and bypass Congress+States (who are the ones with the power to change the constitution, the President doesn't have that power) and enact clearly unconstitutional executive orders, then the US government's checks and balances against dictatorship are gone.
www.newsweek.com
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