Anything to do with money, such as yesterday's fiasco. As was mentioned in many articles yesterday Congress has the "power of the purse", meaning they control the budget and taxes (dictated by several parts of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution). Trump unilaterally decided to stop payment on grants and funds that were already previously approved by Congress.
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The birthright citizenship one is the main one that comes to mind. I do not think all of them are, that would be stretching things.
anything congressionally mandated which is all the money related things. This was actually something that was already played out in the nixon administration so if the trump rules the other way they would once again be ignoring precedence which is part of the reason we are as fucked as we are now.
The first one that comes to mind is the order on birthright citizenship. Most of others I’ve looked into are in the borderlands of maybe. I seem to recall LegalEagle did a video on it, but I haven’t seen it yet. Haven’t had time.
Here’s the video if you’re interested.
One of the biggest problems with this country is that most of them aren't unconstitutional. Sure there are exceptions (which others will name), but we've been building up the president to be a king for a very long time. We've counted on elections and Congress to prevent that, which is amazing that it didn't implode sooner.
Elections and congress were built upon the idea of shame. As in, no one could possibly do that and still expect to be reelected. A felon with a fraud conviction and a history of naked nepotism isn't going to ask people to donate money with a straight face.
Probably some of them but I don't think the constitution really matters anymore.