The Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts say

Render to Caesar etc etc

Scholars warn of president’s lawlessness in actions such as federal funding freeze and birthright citizenship order

Donald Trump’s rapid-fire and controversial moves that have ranged from banning birthright citizenship to firing 18 inspectors general means the US president has shown a greater willingness than his predecessors to violate the constitution and federal law, some historians and legal scholars say.

These scholars pointed to other Trump actions they say blatantly broke the law, such as freezing trillions of dollar in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), even though they were confirmed by the Senate and had several years left in their terms.

“Without any doubt Donald Trump is the most lawless and scofflaw president we have ever seen in the history of the United States,” said Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/01/trump-executive-orders-constitution-law