“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.”
“Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the law and marching to the beat of his own legal drum, the president chose the latter.”
“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”
“Perhaps unaware that he had sailed beyond the Constitution’s horizons, the president found himself drifting further and further from legal terra firma.”
“The president followed the Constitution the way a jazz pianist might follow a standard chart—treating its chords as suggestions upon which to solo as he saw fit.”
“In a feat of legal engineering, the president stressed the Constitution’s support structures past what experts considered their maximum load.”
“The president, tiptoeing precipitously down the sidelines of legality, inadvertently ran the constitutional football out of bounds.”
“As a tailor might stitch together a suit from pieces of textile, so too did the president fashion himself a bespoke garment from the supple threads of the nation’s legal fabric.”
“The president realized that the framework for governance that the Founding Fathers had laid forth appeared to preclude an action that he wished to take. Viewing this encumbrance as unintended on their part, the president disregarded their erroneous guardrail and pressed on.”
“The president did nothing that his crooked, senile predecessor hadn’t already done before.”
See also:
New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for ‘The President Lied’