Our Duty is to the Constitution, Not One Person

My latest in "From Many, We" by the Kettering Foundation

The following text is cross-posted from my latest piece with the Kettering Foundation’s publication series “From Many, We”. The original text may be found here.

The second Trump administration has demonstrated a brazen disregard for the rules and norms that have shaped the office of the presidency. From the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) decimating the federal civil service to a wide-ranging series of tariffs being arbitrarily levied against our trading partners and now the deployment of troops to US cities in opposition to the wishes of local and state authorities, the past five months have shown that there are no measures to counteract the president’s worst impulses. Throughout the chaos and unpredictability of the current administration, one trend has remained consistent: Donald Trump’s vindictive fixation on his political opponents. With no dissenting voices or guardrails in the White House, the president of the United States has now deployed the military against protes…