Unconstitutional Quotes - Page 2

• We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.

  Arlen Specter

  Views, President, United States

  «Bush meets with the Iraqi PM as some in Congress question alliance» by Mark Preston, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

  Mike Pence

  United States, Offensive, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.

  Liz Cheney

  Country, Hurt, Years

  "Liz Cheney: We Must Unify Behind Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2016.

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• I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to their rightful owners, the American people.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Government, People, Citizens

  Source: news.vice.com

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• I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we`re very excited about what he`s doing because what he`s doing is pulling back what we see as unconstitutional executive actions from the past presidents.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Past, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional.

  Mike Pence

  Entering, Offensive, Bans

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• [Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Trying, Encryption

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• What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting and the trademarks?[ Jason] Chaffetz should be investigating the president-elect's impeding violation of the constitution, not this poor government official who is just trying to do his job. And Mr. Chaffetz has endorsed that unconstitutional plan.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Jobs, Golf, Government

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Let's ask their parents. And will those children point to their parents and tell us you really need to enforce the law against my parents? Because they know what they were doing when they caused me to break the law. I don't think we've thought through this very well. But there's a reason why in the president's DACA programs he didn't grant his unconstitutional executive amnesty to the parents of dreamers.

  Steve King

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Good Work, Officers, Happenings

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

  Mary Matalin

  Order, Firsts, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.

  Lester Holt

  New York, Men, Black

  The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Government, Action

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Issues, Government

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

  David Brooks

  Judging, President

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• President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton support sanctuary cities. They support catch and release on the border, they support visa overstays. They support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, criminals from detention. And, they support unconstitutional executive amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Support, President

  Source: time.com

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• President Obama and Hillary Clinton support sanctuary cities. They support catch and release on the border. They support visa overstays. They support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, criminals from detention. And, they support unconstitutional executive amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Support, President

  "Donald Trump Delivers Speech on Immigration Policy; Interview with Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Senator Tim Kaine; Trump Calls for "Extreme Vetting" of Immigrant". "New Day", www.cnn.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.

  Norman Tebbit

  Issues, Kingdoms, Way

  House of Commons Debate, publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 1990.

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• Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.

  Edward Snowden

  Opportunity, Nsa, Abuse

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• The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

  Potter Stewart

  Liberty, Needs, Speech

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• Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

  Joseph Sobran

  Liberty, Libertarian, Program

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• Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute.

  Ron George

  Men, Unions, Statutes

  "California lifts gay marriage ban". news.bbc.co.uk. May 15, 2008.

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• I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it really is a moral view, and that is that the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes...Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me-I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption...I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place.

  Jay Sekulow

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

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• It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law. I don't know what is going through the [Obama] administration's thought process on 'don't ask, don't tell.' It would be appropriate for them to say 'the law has been deemed unconstitutional, we are not going to seek further review of that.'

  Ted Olson

  Errors, Law, Would Be

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• I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Amendments, Fronts

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