Trump’s Latest Attack on Obamacare Violates Oath to Uphold Constitution, Adding to List of Impeachable Offenses

The following article by Steven Rosenfeld was posted on the AlterNet website October 12, 2017:

Trump is now crossing the lines set by conservatives for removal from office.

President Trump’s executive orders Thursday to sabotage the Affordable Care Act—aka Obamacare—is crossing a new legal threshold that could become part of a growing list of ultimately impeachable actions, much like Richard Nixon faced a deepening list of offenses before he resigned from office in 1974.

That’s because Trump’s willful destruction of Obamacare, a law passed by the Congress—not a regulation promulgated by federal departments—would violate his oath to uphold the Constitution, whose Article Two demands that the president “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”     Continue reading “Trump’s Latest Attack on Obamacare Violates Oath to Uphold Constitution, Adding to List of Impeachable Offenses”