Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis

To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constitutional crisis is to understate the significance of what we’re experiencing. “Constitutional crisis” does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitut... See more

Legal scholars tell the New York Times that it is no longer a question of whether the U.S. is in a constitutional crisis — rather, whether Trump’s contortion of the constitutional system will be permanent.