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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Again you seem to suggest that there would be no circumstance under which you could conceive of violating a law. "Bad laws", need to be broken, they need to be challenged. My first rule in life is to always do what I think is right. If I happen to break a law doing what is the right thing to do, I will accept the consequences but I will always be able to hold my head up high. If I were President and felt I needed to break an outdated FISA law, I would.
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That's fine...for you, but hoiw is your philosophy compatible with this oath, taken by a person as a condition of assuming the office of President of the United States?
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..."I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." ...
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Doesn't this discussion come down to whether the current president honored his oath, or not....and not what your reaction, or the reaction of a congressional majority is? Isn't the issue here that the president is pushing hard to have his failure to uphold his oath of office, somehow retroactively legitimized, by a congress that should be instead, drafting articles of impeachment against him for said failure?