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A good faith argument to enforce the Commander in Chief’s warpowers is not “lawlessness” since EVERY WARTIME PRESIDENT IN HISTORY has had the power to spy on the enemy. Especially if the ROBERTS Court approved.
If you had been paying attention, son, you'd know from the outset this nonsense of "power to spy on the enemy" was never the damned issue.
The issue is that the President has ordered surveillance programs enacted that have been judged as operating OUTSIDE the legal authority of the Executive Branch as defined by both US Code and the Constitution of the United States!
In short, the President is knowingly and deliberately breaking the law.
What, precisely, is so difficult to grasp about that?
