Robert Reich: The Constitution Prohibits Trump's War on Blue States

[FakeNoose]

Link: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-constitution-prohibits-trumps

Friends, What does Trump have against Minnesota? Not only is ICE causing mayhem in Minneapolis, but Trump is halting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for social services programs there, according to a Tuesday announcement from Health and Human Services.

It’s not just Minnesota. Trump is also stopping billions in funding for social services in Colorado, Illinois, New York, and California.
Why? Could it be because all of them are led by Democrats and inhabited by voters who overwhelmingly rejected Trump in 2024?

It’s not the first time Trump has openly penalized “blue” states. What’s new is how blatant his vindictiveness toward blue states has become.

Angry at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and at its refusal to free Tina Peters — the former clerk of Mesa County, who was convicted in 2024 of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed plot to prove they had been used to rig the 2020 election against Trump — Trump has cut off transportation money to Colorado, relocated the military’s Space Command, vowed to dismantle a major climate and weather research center located there, and rejected disaster relief for rural counties hammered by floods and wildfires.

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What’s the legal argument? Trump’s Justice Department lawyers claim that such overt political vindictiveness “is constitutionally permissible, including because it can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.”

This, my friends, is utter rubbish.

Punishing states based on whom their residents voted for directly violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, which requires that the government treat citizens equally under the law: No “State [shall] deprive … to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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Robert Reich predicts that Chump's continual pitting of red states vs. blue states will surely end up at the Supreme Court. Chump thinks he's only the president for those who voted for him, and everyone else can go to hell. It doesn't work that way, and the Supreme Court is bound to tell him that.

[Skittles]

1. most everything that fascist fuck does is unconstitutional

Trump wipes his ass with The Constitution

[AnnaLee]

2. And just who is going to stand up for the Constitution

The Constitution, under the current SCOTUS, is probably dead.

[mwmisses4289]

3. The current court is more likely to pat him on the head and tell him good boy.

[Dave Id]

4. Trump does not care what the Constitution says

Trump beleives his 6 Supreme Court justices have given him unlimited, unquestioable power. Reasoned people think otherwise, but he's acting as though he does and the Republican party is afraid to rein him in. The nation as a whole is suffering because of their cowardous.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. it's one of the most disgusting things this piece of shit pedophile rapist POTUS has done as POTUS

[doc03]

6. What is this thing called "The Constitution" we are talking about. nt

[FakeNoose]

7. It's the thing that Chump swore his allegiance to ... TWICE!