‘The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution — not to ‘support’ the Constitution,’ read a filing from the former president’s attorneys
Thank you for the links. I understand your point, though I still question which parts of which phase were skipped - there is a big difference between “XYZ wasn’t done” and “XYZ was in the process of being done, and preliminary results were analysed”, which seems to be the case for the trial phases.