Congressional Republicans have repeatedly failed a simple test: Choose between President Trump and the Constitution.

An upcoming vote will give Senators another chance to make a better choice.

It shouldn’t be so hard. After all, senators took an oath to uphold the Constitution. But then, so did Trump, and we see how little it means to him.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Constitution gives him the power to do whatever he wants. That’s dead wrong. Our presidents are not kings. Under our Constitution, no person, including the president, is above the law.

Yet Trump and his chainsaw-wielding sidekick Elon Musk have repeatedly broken the law in their zeal to gut federal agencies that serve the American people and protect us from wrongdoing by corporations. Trump has issued orders that are unconstitutional according to rulings by the Supreme Court.

Trump seems to hope that the current majority on the Supreme Court will rewrite the Constitution in line with his policy preferences. After all, those justices already made up a sweeping theory about

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