Letters to the Editor

Remember your oath

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

To the Editor:

The MAGAs control the executive branch, the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the U.S. Supreme Court, but the minority party who are in Washington is causing the shutdown because they will not meet with maga legislators who are not in Washington. 

Every member of congress swore an oath to support and defend the constitution, they were not required or should swear a loyalty oath to a president or any man against the constitution.

THE OATH

“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 to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

LeRoy Roberson
Waynesville

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