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D. John Sauer’s Piece of Paper
Does a President know to what they swore an oath to uphold?
Don’t ask the President. Ask Siri. Query AI.
Is the Constitution a working document or the “supreme law of the land.” (1)
What is important is how and why the Constitution was ratified by 9 of the original thirteen colonies, not exclusively what is the Constitution. D. John Sauer, the current Solicitor General of the U. S., views the Constitution as a “working document,” as distinct from a ‘bill’ or an ‘act’. (2) In this regard understandably the Constitution is not definitive, nor, in our opinion, constraining. The Constitution is a draft. This poses an existential dilemma: what is the Constitution and what does it mean to swear to support and uphold the Constitution of the U.S.?
“Don’t you have to uphold the Constitution of the United States?”
Perhaps, Ms. Welker, this is not the question to ask.
During arguments in Trump v. United States, “the executive immunity case,” which ended up not as a decision but as a nexus of opinion, D. John Sauer, Attorney for ‘Trump, the citizen’, posed to the Justices three of whom were sitting as consequence of T****’s patronage, that the Supreme Court, not the Constitution, determines if and when the “office of the President” is exempt from criminal prosecution.
