President Donald Trump is attempting to delay paying an $83 million defamation judgment to writer E. Jean Carroll, asking a federal appeals court to put the payout on hold as he prepares to take the case to the Supreme Court.

Despite taking an oath (twice) to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Donald Trump clearly hasn’t read it. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress, not the president, the “Power To lay and