HOW ABOUT the constantly repeated statement that Trump could run for president while he's in prison after being convicted of felonies?
How about the fact that the claims of his sleazy Saur lawyer to the appeals court that the president can commit the most serious felonies in office and unless convicted in that fictitious means of removing presidents, the never has happened and never will happen conviction by 2/3rds of the Senate, he can get away with it entirely? The "impeachment power" of Congress is one of the worst jokes contained in it, it is a total fiction. There is no actual means of removing the most depraved and criminal of presidents, we, in fact, live in an electoral monarchy.
That either of those are glaring defects in any constitution and that those could even be argued as being Constitutional under the US Constitution, in any court shows just how deficient the document is. Let me go on.
That the Electoral College is still in existence, that the electoral vote of a state is based even partly on the anti-democratic number of Senators.* I suspect that will never be abolished because of the absurdly unrealistic means of amending the damned thing. The near impossibility of doing that to get rid of some of its worst and most anti-democratic features certainly counts as another of its greatest defects.
I'd like to go into a lot more, such as the slave-power implanted ban on the federal government taxing exports - something which has been an economic disadvantage which every American has had to pay for, from the beginning, which shows that the friggin' Constitution was, as Wendell Phillips called it, a pro-slavery compact. Lincoln and the Civil War Amendments didn't get rid of some of the worst of those which the Republican-facists and white supremacists still use and which still puts money in their pockets.
The pardon power, that anything like the fascistic "unitary executive" theory is not obviously unconstitutional. Elite law school faculties are always trying to come up with that kind of anti-democatic, anti-egalitarian crap and the judges and "justices" as well. That anyone could hold such a position while promoting fascism is certainly an indictment of the legal profession and judicial system under the Constitution. You can be a fascist AND a Constitutional scholar in the United States, a real egalitarian democratic Constitution and legal system would never produce that result.
The Second Amendment is a mass murder permitting catastrophe, born in the desire to protect slave owners against those they kept in bondage.
And, since this has to be a short post, today, don't get me started on the permission to lie in the mass media and for the media to sell the most evil and depraved crap (as FOX Lies, does) in the First Amendment, and numerous other clear defects in it.**
* That's something that matters disproportionately when you consider the number of states with lowest number of electoral votes but whose combined numbers, both in the Senate and the Electoral College, makes their votes count many times more than those who vote in the largest states.
Anyone who has a 6th graders knowledge of American history knows that the white supremacists in the slave states and beyond made themselves even more politically powerful by denying the vote to Black People, under slavery and under the de facto continuation of it in Jim Crow, the Jim Crow that the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts are bringing back.
Any honest electoral system would elect a president based on the national majority vote, getting rid of the corrupt electoral college. Its congressional representation would, as well, be based on the potential size of the electorate in the state. But, given the white supremacist use of voter suppression, in the past and, under the Roberts Court and its destruction of the Voting Rights Act, today, both Congressional representation and any disgustingly retained Electoral College should be enumerated on the basis of the percentage of ELIGIBLE VOTERS AS DEFINED BY A NATIONAL STANDARD AND ON THE BASIS OF THE NATIONAL CENSUS which votes in any decade. You'll have to incentivize the permission of voter participation, state by state, if you want to overcome the practices of America's indigenous form of fascism, white supremacy. Imagine if Texas's or South Dakota's or Wisconsin's delegation to the Congress were dependent on allowing all People of Color to vote how that would change things and fuck the white supremacists shit. They'd probably repeal the lifetime ban on voting by those convicted of crimes, one of the ways that they have used the injustice system to suppress minority votes.
** The definition of "free speech" that is capacious enough that it permits the production and dissemination of snuff porn with the Supreme Court's approval is certainly something that could have been better drafted by those amateurs in the Constitutional Convention and the First Congress. It's legal for companies to pay people in Indonesia to torture monkeys to death while it's live streamed or on video for the depraved pleasure of American sadists. It's legal for those videos you may have read about that showed up on Twitter after Elon opened it up to Nazis and fascists where kittens are killed in blenders to be shown. And we haven't gotten to what is done to human beings under the First Amendment as stupidly written and as amended by Supreme Courts in the 20th century. Of course, it was legal to do things like make picture postcards of Black People lynched and send them through the mail under it during the 19th and 20th centuries, so you see the hole in it is bigger than the biggest door in an aircraft hanger in the world. In fact, they used their "free speech" to announce impending lynchings, even through the mail, to get a bigger crowd. I don't recall reading of that ever being stopped by law.
And the one that allows con men and hucksters and, yes, Neo-Nazis, to use the freedom of "religion" to operate freely is another. That the thing doesn't explicitly ban anything promoting inequality and destructive of democracy is another of its most dangerous short-comings.
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