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The American Oath Project: Protecting the Backbone of Democracy

by Kevin K. Johnson

A proposed contract-law strategy for presidential accountability

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  • Critical praise

    Praise from Oliver Houck

    Oliver Houck calls the book one of the most important and well-documented projects he has seen.

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A proposed contract-law strategy for presidential accountability

Kevin K. Johnson frames presidential service through contract and agency common law, read alongside the Constitution, and develops a civil-litigation proposal around that framework. The book organizes its argument around alleged breaches of the presidential oath, ranging from the use of executive powers to conflicts with court orders and actions affecting elections, military forces, and constitutional rights. Its subject is the legal theory and claims the author advances; the description does not establish those claims as court findings or settled law. The result is a focused intervention in debates about presidential accountability, constitutional limits, and the role of civil lawsuits in defending democratic institutions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in constitutional law and government accountability.
  • Those exploring civil litigation as a tool in political or public-interest disputes.
  • Readers seeking an argument centered on the Trump presidency and the presidential oath.

Themes

Presidential accountabilityConstitutional limitsContract and agency lawCivil litigationDemocratic institutions

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Book overview

The American Oath Project proposes the pursuit of civil lawsuits designed to promptly end Mr. Trump's Presidential Employment Contract for both premeditated and ongoing, cumulative and coordinated breaches of the Presidential Oath of Office, and for committing "fraud in the inducement" by lying when he took the Oath.

It presents a legal strategy grounded in centuries of contract and agency common law blended with a "four corners" reading of the Constitution. It outlines civil legal claims to directly address Mr. Trump's:

  1. declining mental and physical capacity;
  2. compulsive lying and the rewriting of history and science;
  3. on-going, blatant abuses of the emoluments clause;
  4. the corrupt use of the pardon power;
  5. threats of and illegal use of the military for acts of war;
  6. attacks on people and institutions exercising their first amendment rights;
  7. Denying due process and equal protections rights to hundreds of thousands documented and undocumented immigrants;
  8. Actively working to politicize the military;
  9. Illegally "nationalizing" State National Guard troops for deployment in democratic American cities;
  10. Converting ICE into a functional personal para-military force loyal only to Mr. Trump;
  11. Actively moving to control the outcome of the mid-term elections;
  12. Threatening and suing federal court judges;
  13. Frequently ignoring, directly and indirectly, federal court orders.

"The American Oath Project is one of the most important and well-documented projects that I have seen...." Oliver Houck, Emeritus Professor and David Boies Chair in Public Interest Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

"We simply must do everything possible to save our country and our democracy. The American Oath Project should be a cornerstone of that effort." -Winston Hickox, Principle, California Strategies, Former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency

 

"The American Oath Project flips the script offering a sharp and proactive offensive litigation strategy to defend the rule of law and put the Trump regime on its heels."

-Gary A. Lucks CPEA JD, author of You Are Not Alone: Your Roadmap to Effective Political Action

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