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Battle for the Constitution: Week of February 22nd, 2021 Roundup

February 26, 2021 | by NCC Staff

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution

By Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution

Jonathan Rauch argues that Donald Trump’s presidency added five informal Amendments to the Constitution, from the ability of presidents to ignore Congressional oversight to dangling pardons as a way of obstructing justice.

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