Please tell me I am not the only Utahn fed up with Sen. Mike Lee’s selective memory and his love of revisionist history. Our so-called constitutional expert meanders the road of democracy like a drunk driver. As Lee Davidson wrote, “Lee was a Never Trumper in 2016 who has in recent years fully converted to an ally and supporter of the president.”
Lee defends the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech, but attacks social media sites critical of Donald Trump.
Lee defended investigations into the actions of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, but now castigates Democrats for doing the same to Trump.
Lee supports efforts by the Trump team to investigate fraud and overturn the presidential election results, despite clear evidence that no such fraud took place. According to Lee, one should search the Constitution carefully in order to determine what the Founding Fathers really meant to say.
The Constitution, according to Lee, is a document to be preserved, protected and followed to the letter. Unless Lee’s personal interpretation of that document differs from that of the founding fathers. Unless doing so puts his political party and Trump at a constitutional disadvantage. And unless doing so dares upset the balance of power in Washington, D.C., and puts his job at risk.
Lee is a fickle lover of the Constitution. He proclaims to know it better than we do, and he would prefer we left the nasty details of interpretation to him. Sorry, we cannot do that.
I wish Lee would follow the road less traveled by fellow Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the only GOP senator to vote to impeach Trump. I wish Lee would show rare courage by calling out Trump for his blatant attacks against that very same Constitution. And I wish Lee would admit that Trump and his legal team have undertaken a constitutional fishing expedition unworthy of a sitting president, and him.
Mike Dunn, Draper