As Justice Joseph Story noted in his A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1842): A President, who shall dare to violate the obligations of his solemn oath or affirmation ...

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance ...

The series with Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre, which just went into production, dives into a murder in Nebraska.

Some called it vindictive. On the other hand, those who had taken a solemn oath to support the United States and had reneged on the oath could, it was argued, justifiably be prevented from simply ...