{"id":138065,"date":"2019-03-04T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138065"},"modified":"2019-03-04T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T01:27:10","slug":"there-oughta-be-a-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/there-oughta-be-a-law.html","title":{"rendered":"There Oughta Be A Law!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This Constitutional Law Moment brought to you by This Is Why We Need More Civics Education. Yeesh. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bwreHhSeWP\">https:\/\/t.co\/bwreHhSeWP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1102732913206910976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>This Constitutional Law Moment brought to you by This Is Why We Need More Civics Education. Yeesh. https:\/\/t.co\/bwreHhSeWP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Diamond and Silk are, of course, bestest buds of both the President and headliners at last weekend&#8217;s CPAC. They are not, however and quite clearly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/articleii\">lawyers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Constitutional Law Moment brought to you by This Is Why We Need More Civics Education. Yeesh. https:\/\/t.co\/bwreHhSeWP &mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) March 5, 2019 This Constitutional Law Moment brought to you by This Is Why We Need More Civics Education. Yeesh. https:\/\/t.co\/bwreHhSeWP Diamond and Silk are, of course, bestest buds of both the President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/there-oughta-be-a-law.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There Oughta Be A Law!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,715,358,1071],"tags":[1773,723,1077],"class_list":["post-138065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-crime-punishment","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-nt","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/constitution-we_the_people.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/trump-has-a-third-emoluments-ethics-law-suit-filed-against-him.html","url_meta":{"origin":138065,"position":0},"title":"Trump has a third emoluments \/ ethics law suit filed against him","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Jun-17 10:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This one is from nearly 200 Democratic congresscritters, arguing that they have been unconstitutionally prevented from ruling whether Trump can accept various economic benefits from foreign governments. 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