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This transfer of power in Virginia matters more than others I’ve seen
For the first time in my life, I watched a new Virginia governor take the oath of office–not only because my schedule was mercifully free and allowed me to camp out on the couch at noon Saturday, but because the stakes for my state’s leadership are much higher now.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) begins her term as Virginia’s 75th governor at a much different time for the commonwealth and the nation than the last time a Democrat was sworn in as governor in front of the Capitol designed by Virginia’s second governor, Thomas Jefferson.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had to deal with the lies, cruelty, bigotry, and incompetence of Trump 1.0, but Spanberger faces even more of that–compounded by Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for trying to punish particular states he deems disloyal.
At its lightest, this takes the form of clumsy, oafish attempts to yank federal funding, threaten federal investigations or undo federal approvals of projects. In Virginia, we’ve seen such examples as the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate George Mason University president Gregory Washington out of office and the groundless bid to stop construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that a federal judge turned aside Friday.
At its worst, the entire country has witnessed the murderous thuggishness of ICE agents in Minneapolis who seem to take tactical inspiration from the secret police of Third World dictatorships.
And over the last year, the two elected officials in Virginia best positioned to contest these abuses of power, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), either did nothing or cheered them along. Youngkin in particular appeared to think that his heel turn from maintaining a measured distance from Trump to embracing so much of a MAGA agenda would set him up well in future elections; the choices of Virginia voters in November suggest that is a delusional hope.
Hours into her term, Spanberger put some distance between herself and Youngkin’s smiling mediocrity: One of the first 10 executive orders she signed rescinds the EO of her predecessor that had directed state law-enforcement agencies to divert their time and resources to assist ICE operations.
That is a good start, and I expect more from the first Democratic governor I’ve seen take office with a Democratic majority in both houses of the General Assembly. These elected representatives have a great deal of work ahead, starting with unfinished business from the last four years in Richmond and now including finding ways to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our state.
#AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #GovernorSpanberger #ice #OldDominion #Richmond #Trump20 #Virginia #VirginiaDems #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaPolitics
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This transfer of power in Virginia matters more than others I’ve seen
For the first time in my life, I watched a new Virginia governor take the oath of office–not only because my schedule was mercifully free and allowed me to camp out on the couch at noon Saturday, but because the stakes for my state’s leadership are much higher now.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) begins her term as Virginia’s 75th governor at a much different time for the commonwealth and the nation than the last time a Democrat was sworn in as governor in front of the Capitol designed by Virginia’s second governor, Thomas Jefferson.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had to deal with the lies, cruelty, bigotry, and incompetence of Trump 1.0, but Spanberger faces even more of that–compounded by Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for trying to punish particular states he deems disloyal.
At its lightest, this takes the form of clumsy, oafish attempts to yank federal funding, threaten federal investigations or undo federal approvals of projects. In Virginia, we’ve seen such examples as the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate George Mason University president Gregory Washington out of office and the groundless bid to stop construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that a federal judge turned aside Friday.
At its worst, the entire country has witnessed the murderous thuggishness of ICE agents in Minneapolis who seem to take tactical inspiration from the secret police of Third World dictatorships.
And over the last year, the two elected officials in Virginia best positioned to contest these abuses of power, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), either did nothing or cheered them along. Youngkin in particular appeared to think that his heel turn from maintaining a measured distance from Trump to embracing so much of a MAGA agenda would set him up well in future elections; the choices of Virginia voters in November suggest that is a delusional hope.
Hours into her term, Spanberger put some distance between herself and Youngkin’s smiling mediocrity: One of the first 10 executive orders she signed rescinds the EO of her predecessor that had directed state law-enforcement agencies to divert their time and resources to assist ICE operations.
That is a good start, and I expect more from the first Democratic governor I’ve seen take office with a Democratic majority in both houses of the General Assembly. These elected representatives have a great deal of work ahead, starting with unfinished business from the last four years in Richmond and now including finding ways to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our state.
#AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #GovernorSpanberger #ice #OldDominion #Richmond #Trump20 #Virginia #VirginiaDems #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaPolitics
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This transfer of power in Virginia matters more than others I’ve seen
For the first time in my life, I watched a new Virginia governor take the oath of office–not only because my schedule was mercifully free and allowed me to camp out on the couch at noon Saturday, but because the stakes for my state’s leadership are much higher now.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D.) begins her term as Virginia’s 75th governor at a much different time for the commonwealth and the nation than the last time a Democrat was sworn in as governor in front of the Capitol designed by Virginia’s second governor, Thomas Jefferson.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D.) had to deal with the lies, cruelty, bigotry, and incompetence of Trump 1.0, but Spanberger faces even more of that–compounded by Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for trying to punish particular states he deems disloyal.
At its lightest, this takes the form of clumsy, oafish attempts to yank federal funding, threaten federal investigations or undo federal approvals of projects. In Virginia, we’ve seen such examples as the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate George Mason University president Gregory Washington out of office and the groundless bid to stop construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that a federal judge turned aside Friday.
At its worst, the entire country has witnessed the murderous thuggishness of ICE agents in Minneapolis who seem to take tactical inspiration from the secret police of Third World dictatorships.
And over the last year, the two elected officials in Virginia best positioned to contest these abuses of power, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R.) and former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R.) either did nothing or cheered them along. Youngkin in particular appeared to think that his heel turn from maintaining a measured distance from Trump to embracing so much of a MAGA agenda would set him up well in future elections; the choices of Virginia voters in November suggest that is a delusional hope.
Hours into her term, Spanberger put some distance between herself and Youngkin’s smiling mediocrity: One of the first 10 executive orders she signed rescinds the EO of her predecessor that had directed state law-enforcement agencies to divert their time and resources to assist ICE operations.
That is a good start, and I expect more from the first Democratic governor I’ve seen take office with a Democratic majority in both houses of the General Assembly. These elected representatives have a great deal of work ahead, starting with unfinished business from the last four years in Richmond and now including finding ways to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our state.
#AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #GovernorSpanberger #ice #OldDominion #Richmond #Trump20 #Virginia #VirginiaDems #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaPolitics
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This transfer of power in Virginia matters more than others I’ve seen
For the first time in my life, I watched a new Virginia governor take the oath of office–not only because my schedule was mercifully free and allowed me to camp out on the couch at noon Saturday, but because the stakes for my state’s leadership are much higher now.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) begins her term as Virginia’s 75th governor at a much different time for the commonwealth and the nation than the last time a Democrat was sworn in as governor in front of the Capitol designed by Virginia’s second governor, Thomas Jefferson.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had to deal with the lies, cruelty, bigotry, and incompetence of Trump 1.0, but Spanberger faces even more of that–compounded by Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for trying to punish particular states he deems disloyal.
At its lightest, this takes the form of clumsy, oafish attempts to yank federal funding, threaten federal investigations or undo federal approvals of projects. In Virginia, we’ve seen such examples as the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate George Mason University president Gregory Washington out of office and the groundless bid to stop construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that a federal judge turned aside Friday.
At its worst, the entire country has witnessed the murderous thuggishness of ICE agents in Minneapolis who seem to take tactical inspiration from the secret police of Third World dictatorships.
And over the last year, the two elected officials in Virginia best positioned to contest these abuses of power, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), either did nothing or cheered them along. Youngkin in particular appeared to think that his heel turn from maintaining a measured distance from Trump to embracing so much of a MAGA agenda would set him up well in future elections; the choices of Virginia voters in November suggest that is a delusional hope.
Hours into her term, Spanberger put some distance between herself and Youngkin’s smiling mediocrity: One of the first 10 executive orders she signed rescinds the EO of her predecessor that had directed state law-enforcement agencies to divert their time and resources to assist ICE operations.
That is a good start, and I expect more from the first Democratic governor I’ve seen take office with a Democratic majority in both houses of the General Assembly. These elected representatives have a great deal of work ahead, starting with unfinished business from the last four years in Richmond and now including finding ways to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our state.
#AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #GovernorSpanberger #ice #OldDominion #Richmond #Trump20 #Virginia #VirginiaDems #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaPolitics
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This transfer of power in Virginia matters more than others I’ve seen
For the first time in my life, I watched a new Virginia governor take the oath of office–not only because my schedule was mercifully free and allowed me to camp out on the couch at noon Saturday, but because the stakes for my state’s leadership are much higher now.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) begins her term as Virginia’s 75th governor at a much different time for the commonwealth and the nation than the last time a Democrat was sworn in as governor in front of the Capitol designed by Virginia’s second governor, Thomas Jefferson.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had to deal with the lies, cruelty, bigotry, and incompetence of Trump 1.0, but Spanberger faces even more of that–compounded by Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for trying to punish particular states he deems disloyal.
At its lightest, this takes the form of clumsy, oafish attempts to yank federal funding, threaten federal investigations or undo federal approvals of projects. In Virginia, we’ve seen such examples as the unsuccessful attempt to intimidate George Mason University president Gregory Washington out of office and the groundless bid to stop construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project that a federal judge turned aside Friday.
At its worst, the entire country has witnessed the murderous thuggishness of ICE agents in Minneapolis who seem to take tactical inspiration from the secret police of Third World dictatorships.
And over the last year, the two elected officials in Virginia best positioned to contest these abuses of power, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and former Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), either did nothing or cheered them along. Youngkin in particular appeared to think that his heel turn from maintaining a measured distance from Trump to embracing so much of a MAGA agenda would set him up well in future elections; the choices of Virginia voters in November suggest that is a delusional hope.
Hours into her term, Spanberger put some distance between herself and Youngkin’s smiling mediocrity: One of the first 10 executive orders she signed rescinds the EO of her predecessor that had directed state law-enforcement agencies to divert their time and resources to assist ICE operations.
That is a good start, and I expect more from the first Democratic governor I’ve seen take office with a Democratic majority in both houses of the General Assembly. These elected representatives have a great deal of work ahead, starting with unfinished business from the last four years in Richmond and now including finding ways to repair the damage that Trump has inflicted on our state.
#AbigailSpanberger #GlennYoungkin #GovernorSpanberger #ice #OldDominion #Richmond #Trump20 #Virginia #VirginiaDems #VirginiaGeneralAssembly #VirginiaPolitics
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2025 in review: doing my small part to document an experiment in national self-harm
I had thought that 2017’s introduction to President Trump’s chaos, corruption and cruelty would be an adequate preparation for the 2025 sequel that American voters ordered up in a vote that I may never be able to understand fully. I was wrong.
That foolish choice has given us “this moral slum of an administration,” to quote noted liberal squish George F. Will: fascism-curious contempt for Constitutional limits on presidential power, trampled human rights at home and abroad for the sake of a racist and isolationist agenda, a pointless ransacking of useful government agencies that among other costs has probably left hundreds of thousands of people dead overseas, economically and scientifically ignorant policies like up-and-down tariffs and ordering obsolete coal power plants to stay online while trying to strangle offshore wind power, the most openly corrupt White House in history, and a cringe-inducing cult of personality that invites comparisons to North Korea.
I also did not expect so many Republicans to hold their political manhood cheap and sign off on even the stupidest ideas of their Dear Leader, which is how we now have a Confederacy-whitewashing, war-crime cheerleader lording over the Department of Defense and a science-denying quack hijacking the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nor did I predict that we would see so many tech CEOs not only nod politely but grovel for favor before this administration.
(To judge from the beatings that Republican candidates have received in elections this year–in particular, in the state of my birth and in the state of my choice–many Trump voters also didn’t expect this state of affairs and can no longer endorse it.)
My own lot this year seems strikingly easy: I haven’t had to learn what tear gas smells or tastes like, had my job DOGEd out of existence, or seen friends or family members thrown into a foreign gulag. Nor have I had a single client ask me to go easy on this administration in a story or edit my copy to ensure that I would.
I have had the usual struggles of freelancing, both in the sense of managing my time and in terms of managing my client relationships (I did much better at selling to Fast Company but once again dropped the ball with AARP). But I learned a lot, found purpose in sharing what I learned even when it was bad news, and had some fun along the way–including rides on such interesting modes of transportation as a Zoox robotaxi, Arc and Candela battery-electric sport boats, and the USPS’s duckface Next Generation Delivery Vehicle.
Out of the hundreds of stories I wrote this year, these 10 stand out to me as I look back at my own 2025.
- In February, I returned to a topic that I’ve been covering since 2018 in a post for PCMag documenting 8K TV’s embarrassing lack of appeal to consumers who smartly value price above resolution specifications.
- After years of meaning to tee off on Venmo’s horrible privacy settings, I finally wrote that piece in April for Fast Company–in the process, learning that even privacy professionals can miss some of that payments app’s data-leaking defaults.
- In June, I made my first appearance in the Virginia Mercury to write about Richmond’s overdue recognition that ceding online tax prep to Intuit and its ilk in 2010 was a dismal failure. It feels great when you see a gap in news coverage of where you live, then fill it yourself.
- In a July post for PCMag, I broke down how the GOP’s fossil-fuel fetishists were killing off the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for clean-energy purchases–and how many states still had not put in place their own mechanisms to claim some of these expiring incentives.
- I wrote a great many posts about Trump announcements, and each time I tried to provide useful context to help readers judge them independently. Among all those, I particularly like the unpacking of Trump’s “AI Action Plan” that I did in a post later in July for PCMag.
- Sitting down to talk to some managers of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference’s network for PCMag yielded a small lesson about the need for a little empathy in information security.
- In September, I returned to Berlin’s Stasi Museum for the first time since my 2018 introduction to it and had to point out to PCMag readers how I now saw uncomfortable parallels with certain aspects of American politics today.
- Reporting a story for Worth magazine published online in September about the energy use of AI data centers opened my eyes to how certain AI providers don’t want to talk about where they get the electricity for these sprawling facilities or how they plan to avoid stiffing existing ratepayers in the process.
- I spent more time than I expected finding people willing to talk about how the Trump administration’s indifferent and sometimes inept approach to cybersecurity is weakening the nation’s defenses, but that piece finally ran in Fast Company in October.
- Also in October, Fast Co. ran my longest story there yet about how Amtrak’s NextGen Acela remains stuck on previous-generation infrastructure–and how high-speed rail projects throughout the U.S. have been held back by an unwillingness to steal the best practices of other countries.
AI figured in much of my coverage and played an even larger role in my side hustle of moderating panels at conferences. That technology may be eating away at the underpinnings of my industry, but in the short term it has been a boost to my traveling on other people’s money.
This year, those trips and the ones I bankrolled myself introduced me to four new airports and one country, also taking me farther east from home than I’d ever traveled before. I liked seeing new places, making new connections there, and running into old friends along the way, but as ever I especially liked coming home after each of these often-tiring adventures.
(You can see a map of those flights after the jump; just looking at that may make you feel tired.)
I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United Airlines and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Azul, GOL and Lufthansa; other colors, some of which may be difficult to differentiate, represent Alaska Airlines and Lufthansa (other hues of blue); American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss International Air Lines, and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red); Qatar Airways (burgundy); and TAP Air Portugal (green).
#2025InReview #abuseOfPower #AI #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #Trump20 #yearInReview
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Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated
How the 47th president-elect is pushing the boundaries of the founding document
By Zachary B. Wolf, Curt Merrill and Way Mullery, CNN
Published: January 18, 2025
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment.
There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The president-elect wants to end birthright citizenship, even though it’s in the 14th Amendment. His pledge to use “impoundment” to save money runs afoul of the idea that the legislature has the power of the purse. He has mused about ending the federal income tax, groused about the Senate’s role in confirming appointees and joked about staying in power after his second term ends. But the Constitution is clear in what it does and does not allow.
As he enters the White House a second time, it’s worth reading the Constitution, again, with a highlighter, and through the lens of Trump’s promises and his plans.
Read the United States’ founding document along with us — from top to bottom — or use the dropdown menu to skip ahead to a specific article or amendment.
Editor’s Note: The article link shows a list of the U.S. Constitution, annotated by section or part, re: Trump 2.0. I could not include that link box in my re-posting. Use on the CNN page. Below is the truncated beginning on the text…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
– Congress –
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
The framers, by design, put the Congress and the House first in the Constitution because they wanted the legislature to drive the government. That’s not how things feel with today’s gridlocked Congress and powerful presidents.
For another line-by-line deconstruction of the Constitution with input from across the political spectrum, check out this one from the National Constitution Center.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
This reference to enslaved Americans being referred to as 3/5 of “free Persons” for counting purposes — a compromise between the northern and southern states at the time of the writing of the Constitution — was overwritten by the 13th and 14th Amendments. Also, Native Americans are now taxed and thus counted for apportionment.
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Trump is the only president in US history to face two impeachments, and the only impeached president to win a second term. He is unlikely to face impeachment so long as Republicans control the House, which they will at least until January 2027.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
#2025 #America #Annotated #CNN #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #Trump20 #TrumpAdministration #USConstitution #UnitedStates
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Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated
How the 47th president-elect is pushing the boundaries of the founding document
By Zachary B. Wolf, Curt Merrill and Way Mullery, CNN
Published: January 18, 2025
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment.
There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The president-elect wants to end birthright citizenship, even though it’s in the 14th Amendment. His pledge to use “impoundment” to save money runs afoul of the idea that the legislature has the power of the purse. He has mused about ending the federal income tax, groused about the Senate’s role in confirming appointees and joked about staying in power after his second term ends. But the Constitution is clear in what it does and does not allow.
As he enters the White House a second time, it’s worth reading the Constitution, again, with a highlighter, and through the lens of Trump’s promises and his plans.
Read the United States’ founding document along with us — from top to bottom — or use the dropdown menu to skip ahead to a specific article or amendment.
Editor’s Note: The article link shows a list of the U.S. Constitution, annotated by section or part, re: Trump 2.0. I could not include that link box in my re-posting. Use on the CNN page. Below is the truncated beginning on the text…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
– Congress –
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
The framers, by design, put the Congress and the House first in the Constitution because they wanted the legislature to drive the government. That’s not how things feel with today’s gridlocked Congress and powerful presidents.
For another line-by-line deconstruction of the Constitution with input from across the political spectrum, check out this one from the National Constitution Center.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
This reference to enslaved Americans being referred to as 3/5 of “free Persons” for counting purposes — a compromise between the northern and southern states at the time of the writing of the Constitution — was overwritten by the 13th and 14th Amendments. Also, Native Americans are now taxed and thus counted for apportionment.
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Trump is the only president in US history to face two impeachments, and the only impeached president to win a second term. He is unlikely to face impeachment so long as Republicans control the House, which they will at least until January 2027.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
#2025 #America #Annotated #CNN #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #Trump20 #TrumpAdministration #USConstitution #UnitedStates
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Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated
How the 47th president-elect is pushing the boundaries of the founding document
By Zachary B. Wolf, Curt Merrill and Way Mullery, CNN
Published: January 18, 2025
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment.
There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The president-elect wants to end birthright citizenship, even though it’s in the 14th Amendment. His pledge to use “impoundment” to save money runs afoul of the idea that the legislature has the power of the purse. He has mused about ending the federal income tax, groused about the Senate’s role in confirming appointees and joked about staying in power after his second term ends. But the Constitution is clear in what it does and does not allow.
As he enters the White House a second time, it’s worth reading the Constitution, again, with a highlighter, and through the lens of Trump’s promises and his plans.
Read the United States’ founding document along with us — from top to bottom — or use the dropdown menu to skip ahead to a specific article or amendment.
Editor’s Note: The article link shows a list of the U.S. Constitution, annotated by section or part, re: Trump 2.0. I could not include that link box in my re-posting. Use on the CNN page. Below is the truncated beginning on the text…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
– Congress –
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
The framers, by design, put the Congress and the House first in the Constitution because they wanted the legislature to drive the government. That’s not how things feel with today’s gridlocked Congress and powerful presidents.
For another line-by-line deconstruction of the Constitution with input from across the political spectrum, check out this one from the National Constitution Center.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
This reference to enslaved Americans being referred to as 3/5 of “free Persons” for counting purposes — a compromise between the northern and southern states at the time of the writing of the Constitution — was overwritten by the 13th and 14th Amendments. Also, Native Americans are now taxed and thus counted for apportionment.
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Trump is the only president in US history to face two impeachments, and the only impeached president to win a second term. He is unlikely to face impeachment so long as Republicans control the House, which they will at least until January 2027.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
#2025 #America #Annotated #CNN #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #Trump20 #TrumpAdministration #USConstitution #UnitedStates
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Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated
How the 47th president-elect is pushing the boundaries of the founding document
By Zachary B. Wolf, Curt Merrill and Way Mullery, CNN
Published: January 18, 2025
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment.
There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The president-elect wants to end birthright citizenship, even though it’s in the 14th Amendment. His pledge to use “impoundment” to save money runs afoul of the idea that the legislature has the power of the purse. He has mused about ending the federal income tax, groused about the Senate’s role in confirming appointees and joked about staying in power after his second term ends. But the Constitution is clear in what it does and does not allow.
As he enters the White House a second time, it’s worth reading the Constitution, again, with a highlighter, and through the lens of Trump’s promises and his plans.
Read the United States’ founding document along with us — from top to bottom — or use the dropdown menu to skip ahead to a specific article or amendment.
Editor’s Note: The article link shows a list of the U.S. Constitution, annotated by section or part, re: Trump 2.0. I could not include that link box in my re-posting. Use on the CNN page. Below is the truncated beginning on the text…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
– Congress –
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
The framers, by design, put the Congress and the House first in the Constitution because they wanted the legislature to drive the government. That’s not how things feel with today’s gridlocked Congress and powerful presidents.
For another line-by-line deconstruction of the Constitution with input from across the political spectrum, check out this one from the National Constitution Center.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
This reference to enslaved Americans being referred to as 3/5 of “free Persons” for counting purposes — a compromise between the northern and southern states at the time of the writing of the Constitution — was overwritten by the 13th and 14th Amendments. Also, Native Americans are now taxed and thus counted for apportionment.
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Trump is the only president in US history to face two impeachments, and the only impeached president to win a second term. He is unlikely to face impeachment so long as Republicans control the House, which they will at least until January 2027.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
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Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated
How the 47th president-elect is pushing the boundaries of the founding document
By Zachary B. Wolf, Curt Merrill and Way Mullery, CNN
Published: January 18, 2025
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment.
There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.
The president-elect wants to end birthright citizenship, even though it’s in the 14th Amendment. His pledge to use “impoundment” to save money runs afoul of the idea that the legislature has the power of the purse. He has mused about ending the federal income tax, groused about the Senate’s role in confirming appointees and joked about staying in power after his second term ends. But the Constitution is clear in what it does and does not allow.
As he enters the White House a second time, it’s worth reading the Constitution, again, with a highlighter, and through the lens of Trump’s promises and his plans.
Read the United States’ founding document along with us — from top to bottom — or use the dropdown menu to skip ahead to a specific article or amendment.
Editor’s Note: The article link shows a list of the U.S. Constitution, annotated by section or part, re: Trump 2.0. I could not include that link box in my re-posting. Use on the CNN page. Below is the truncated beginning on the text…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
– Congress –
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
The framers, by design, put the Congress and the House first in the Constitution because they wanted the legislature to drive the government. That’s not how things feel with today’s gridlocked Congress and powerful presidents.
For another line-by-line deconstruction of the Constitution with input from across the political spectrum, check out this one from the National Constitution Center.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
This reference to enslaved Americans being referred to as 3/5 of “free Persons” for counting purposes — a compromise between the northern and southern states at the time of the writing of the Constitution — was overwritten by the 13th and 14th Amendments. Also, Native Americans are now taxed and thus counted for apportionment.
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Trump is the only president in US history to face two impeachments, and the only impeached president to win a second term. He is unlikely to face impeachment so long as Republicans control the House, which they will at least until January 2027.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump 2.0 vs. the US Constitution, annotated – CNN
#2025 #America #Annotated #CNN #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #Trump20 #TrumpAdministration #USConstitution #UnitedStates