Check out the Declaration's list of grievances -- Jennifer Rubin

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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/check-out-the-declarations-list-of

Desperate for some inspiration, I decided to reread the entire Declaration of Independence. We know it as an aspirational document (“We hold these truths…”). We understand it as a repudiation of tyranny (“Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”). It is both those things, but it is also a compendium of complaints, a description of an autocrat’s offenses against a free people. And that was the part I found strangely relevant to our times.

. . . (Clipped specific citations from the Constitution)

Though our bill of particulars against Trump bears some resemblance to the Declaration’s list of grievances, it might be useful to include a few of Trump’s more recent offenses:

He has waged war without the authorization of Congress.

He has used his office to enrich himself and corrupt commerce.

He has attempted to quash states’ laws and practices (e.g., California’s air quality standards, sanctuary cities’ prohibitions on cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

He has threatened the free press.

He has weaponized the administration of justice against his enemies and released felons who staged an insurrection.

He has installed incompetent, ignorant, and morally compromised people in high office.

He has vowed to strip his political opponents’ citizenship.

He has attempted to usurp the power of the purse.

I could go on.

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