Op-Ed: Trump sues the IRS and you and the constitution

By Kary Love 

Nobody made Don Trump run for president. He did so voluntarily. He should have known that if successful, this meant he would have to swear an oath to defend the Constitution, and that his job would be to “faithfully execute the laws” (Article II) as passed by Congress, the American lawmakers.

One law Don has to “faithfully execute” is the due process of law underlying much of the genius of the American Revolution, which hopefully celebrates its 250th Birthday July 4, 2026.

However, the “due process of law” was not an American Revolutionary invention. It came out of thousands of years of struggle, civil war and rebellion, both in Olde England and even the Roman Republic before the American Rebels claimed it as their own. Due process of law had some hard won “principles” that emerged from “trial and error,” like most human advances.

One core principle was that “no person can be judge in his own case.” Now Kings hated that idea. They much preferred being “judge” in their own cases. It makes it a lot easier to win the case!

So Kings routinely decide in their own favor cases they were involved in. Slowly, the people learned that such a rigged case was no case, and the people lost, both their money and their rights as a result. So rebellions and civil wars were fought to dispute letting Kings judge their own cases, and “due process of law” evolved to include the principle that fundamental fairness required an “objective judge or jury” making the decisions, not an interested person.

When Trump ran for president of America, and swore his oath, he was telling the world he would preserve and defend “due process of law,” against all enemies foreign and domestic. Due process of law was one critical principle the great American rebels died and bled and fought to establish as a foundation of America itself.

Mr. Trump is engaged in a scheme to be “judge in his own case” against the IRS and you (because you pay the IRS, any dollars awarded in the case are your dollars.) Because the IRS and the DOJ “representing” the IRS in the case both work for the President, Mr. Trump “decides” his own case.

Allowing Mr. Trump to do so, dishonors every American from the Revolution to today who fight to defend the Constitution, the supreme law, because Mr. Trump’s scheme is nothing but an assault on fundamental due process won and defended by generations of America’s greatest patriots. Mr. Trump acknowledged his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, violates due process stating that “it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself,” as reported by CBS news and others.

It is not merely “strange” it is unAmerican, it is like a meme of King Trump (his meme that he posted) flying in an F35 and “bombing” America with feces, literally taking a dump on one of America’s greatest principles—due process of law.

Mr. Trump can sue the IRS (and you). But he cannot claim to be President of the American people, nor a supporter of America’s 250th Birthday while doing so. A decent respect for the nation’s dead patriots for 250 years, requires Mr. Trump either abandon the suit or any settlement, or he resign the Presidency.

Should Mr. Trump fail to exercise one or the other of these options, his actions repudiate the principle of due process of law and relegate America to nothing but a Banana Republic, where El Presidente decides his own cases. No amount of tinsel and gold leaf can cover this depraved reality or give cause to celebrate July 4, 2026.

One suspects the American patriots and their predecessors back to the Magna Carta and beyond, watching Americans of today from the great beyond, could only shake their heads and mutter the ancient slogans proclaimed as generations fought against kings, “Lex Rex” (the “Law is King” —overturning “Rex Lex” (the King is Law) or maybe just , “86-47.”

Kary Love, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Michigan attorney who has defended nuclear resisters and many others in court for decades.