'Just no debate': Georgetown law professor blasts Trump’s 'stunning' views on Constitution

During an interview with President Donald Trump aired on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, May 4, host Kristen Walker asked, "Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?" And Trump responded, “I don't know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation."

Steve Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, discussed that interview during a Monday morning appearance on CNN the following day. And he laid out some reasons why he finds Trump's comments during the Welker interview problematic.

When CNN's Pamela Brown asked him how he views Trump's comments on the presidency and the Constitution, he responded, "Pretty stunning."

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Vladeck told Brown, "I mean, I think it's really remarkable. Here's a president who has taken this oath twice, and it's not a long oath. It's 35 words. And all it says is: I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution."

Brown noted that Trump, during the Welker interview, "also said he didn't know if the 5th Amendment grants both citizens and non-citizens the same right to due process."

Vladeck told the CNN host, "The Supreme Court, for generations, has said that the 5th Amendment protects non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants. Just last month, the Supreme Court unanimously held, in the context of the Alien Enemies Act, that even undocumented immigrants are subject to the Alien Enemies Act, have a right to at least some process before they're removed. So, you know, there's debate about how much processes is due. There's just no debate that some processes is due."

Vladeck pointed out that "undocumented immigrants" don't "have the same rights that a natural born citizen does."

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He added, however, "But at the end of the day, if we weren't going to have any due process, what is to stop the government from pointing at any of us, you or me or anyone else on the street, and saying, 'Oh, well, they're an undocumented immigrant and I can remove them summarily?"

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