Laws that are unconstitutional do not need to be obeyed

[DesEtoiles]

I believe that's the law.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. not exactly. you can use that as a defense

at trial, sometimes it works, sometimes not.

they are not like military rules and orders. if they are passed by the legislative branch, even if found to be unconstitutional by the SC later, they are still laws enforceable by whatever means allowed.

[stepnw1f]

2. Yup!

That's what I say as well.

[Democrats_win]

3. Should we even recognize the authority of an unconstitutional government?

Obviously we must recognize it's power, but....

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm

[Mythsaje]

4. There is no moral obligation

to obey an unjust law.

[BOSSHOG]

5. And there is no longer any requirement

to swear to tell the truth since the president, vice president and attorney general of the United States don't have to.