6 ways Donald Trump wants to trample the Constitution

These Trump proposals aren't just illegal. They're blatantly unconstitutional.

If Trump were at the Constitutional Convention.
(Image credit: Illustration by Lauren Hansen | Image courtesy North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo)

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a yuge Trump booster, has been telling fellow Republicans that they should vote for Trump because he's the "only candidate" who would "uphold the Constitution." That's a laugh given that Trump is less wedded to the Constitution than he was to his first two wives. There is not an amendment that he has left unmolested. Consider just six of his many ridiculous proposals:

1. He wants to give cop killers the death penalty

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Shikha Dalmia

Shikha Dalmia is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University studying the rise of populist authoritarianism.  She is a Bloomberg View contributor and a columnist at the Washington Examiner, and she also writes regularly for The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. She considers herself to be a progressive libertarian and an agnostic with Buddhist longings and a Sufi soul.