LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trump’s minions want to overturn Constitution

Dear Editor:

Trump’s team of rascals charged in the Georgia election interference case are attempting to overturn Constitutional law in the twinkling of an evil eye.

For example, former federal justice department employee Jeffrey Clark is making a claim that the president has an “unqualified and illimitable right” to change federal job responsibilities from public to private to enable folks like himself to undertake Watergate-style partisan political activities at the state level. The idea was to change Georgia plumbing using federal stationary to coax Georgia into withholding certification of their election results.

Articles I and II of the Constitution are all about qualifying and limiting the president’s general functions in every way imaginable. Also, there is a long history of law qualifying and limiting how the president runs his own branch, ultimately tying employment decisions and directives to legislative branch checks and balances.

The president is not the footloose and fancy-free employer Clark makes him out to be. But Clark’s lawyers are taking a stab at transferring his case to a more friendly federal court and will appeal if they lose. Who knows, some judge somewhere might be asleep at the wheel or may be swayed by road rage?

Kimball Shinkosky

Woods Cross, Utah