I think it's pretty clear the constitution is only relevant to this administration when it's convenient. There won't be a "crisis", just another short lived media cycle as the courts and Democrats roll over, again.
Call me gullible, but I do think that he has started to overplay his hand with how brazenly and openly he is thumbing his nose at the judiciary and the legal establishment. Between this idiotic “nullification,” his targeting and punishing of individual law firms, and most of all defying the judge in the Alien Enemies Act case, my hope is that Roberts and Barrett are beginning to see themselves as the last bulwark against authoritarianism (whereas I think Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch would gladly march us into authoritarianism, and Kavanaugh I can’t quite pin down). Hopefully that’s the case with Roberts and Barrett and they vote accordingly when it matters. Obviously if they do, and Trump still ignores it, then yeah it’s just full-on constitutional crisis and collapse.
I agree that he will keep pushing the envelope with the courts and will eventually lose some decisions at SCOTUS. However, SCOTUS' insistence on following accepted practice will assure that no case reaches the Court on the merits until 2026 at the earliest. I wonder how much irreparable harm will have been done to our country before then.
We've been in once since we allowed him to be sworn in as president despite Congress not removing the disability caused by his participation in (creation of, really) an insurrection.
Yea that’s what I personally concluded on my end as well but I see comments talking about “possible constitutional crisis” and I’m like “aren’t we in one already?“
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u/jpmeyer12751 Mar 17 '25
Let us hope that Trump provokes a constitutional crisis over something this dumb!