Quick question, what do you get when you drain the swamp and don’t replace it with anything of value? Answer: [Insert Here].
Trump has maintained a tradition of putting people who blank out when it comes to answering basic questions about the Constitution in power. His last Supreme Court justice pick made headlines for not recalling the right to protest:
This term, Trump’s Fox & Friends fighting fanatic pick for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked to cite the part of the Constitution that allows the President to flood a state with the National Guard without the governor’s consent and he came up goose egg:
As shameful as it is for a Supreme Court judge to forget about the right to protest or for the Secretary of Defense to not know the conditions for deploying troops, things happen. Public speaking is scary enough before you factor in the flashing lights and high-profile questioning. Given some time and the opportunity to write things down, surely Trump’s people would do a better job of justifying their bullshit:
Oh.
Is Trump’s legal team three undergrads in a trench coat? ChatGPT would have at least made the attempt to hallucinate something under the table of authorities. And to make matters worse, their table of contents somehow has less in it.
Run on anti-intellectualist rhetoric and kick out/force all of the competent lawyers to resign, and this is what you get.
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.comand by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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