Are we having a constitutional crisis in the US? Yes, as a matter of fact we are. It's in the incipient stages and there's more to come. Much more. The experts are weighing in and the opinions as usual, are divided. I love experts, except when they're wrong, and they often are.
Since Trump took office about three weeks ago, democrats have been running around like chickens in a barnyard clucking "constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis...". I'm not exactly sure what they think Trump is doing that is a constitutional crisis (I don't think they're sure either...) but I'm willing to bet that as usual, it's whatever he's doing is somehow a constitutional crisis. Cutting off funding to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces and business communities, a DEI musical in Ireland?... A transgender opera in Columbia, a transgender comic book in Peru, LGBT activism in Guatemala?... A $6 million agreement to fund tourism in Egypt? And as you might expect, this is but the tip of the old iceberg. How about let's just call a spade a spade, the American taxpayer has been embezzled and played for a fool by the liberals for far too long. It seems now, cutting off funding for this bullshit is a constitutional crisis.
What I've described above is not a constitutional crisis by any stretch. All that is simply the democrats disabusing themselves of common sense. If we expect that to stop then we are guilty of the same. But we do have one (a real honest-to-goodness constitutional crisis) popping its head above the horizon like the morning sun. It consists of filing lawsuits for injunctions to halt executive orders in federal district courts (invariably in solidly liberal districts). For whatever reason it has come to bear, legally or not, that federal district judges have the authority to tell the President what he can and cant do and whom he can appoint to do certain tasks. The President was elected by the people, federal district court judges weren't elected by anyone. Yet presumably they can impose, even force their opinion and will on an elected US president? Why don't we simply move all these little Napoleon-complex addled bastards into the White House and not bother with electing a president? Does anyone else smell the stench of the continuation of lawfare?
This particular 'constitutional crisis' was kicked off by Letitia James (remember her?...) and 16 other attorney generals of blue states in an attempt to stop Elon Musk's DOGE from reviewing whom the government pays. The injunction put in place by Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York issued the order without even letting the defendants respond. So much for the liberals cackling the virtue of being held to the rule of law. The true purpose of the lawsuit is to prevent DOGE from informing the president, the Treasury Secretary, and the voters about who receives the public's money as a result of executive agency decisions. There are indeed resounding constitutional issues with hiding from the president and the voters where government agencies are spending taxpayer money.
All this begs the question, how and if the executive branch is bound to submit to the decisions of these lower courts. This is not the first time this issue has arisen in history. However, no president has ever directly challenged the obedience of the executive branch to the courts. The notion that courts can order literally anything on whatever basis they might fabricate and the two elected branches have no recourse is a monumental problem. Something equal to the severity of the issue when Commander Jack Swigert on Apollo 13 said to ground control in 1970, "Houston, we have a problem here...". Arguably, the executive branch would be derelict of duty in allowing executive powers to be simply taken over by a rogue and biased district judge. Attempting to usurp the president's power by merely inquiring what the executive departments are doing is preposterous and absurd. Indeed, to order the president to cease and desist executive action and even to immediately destroy evidence as Judge Engelmayer did... sounds tantamount to subversion to me... Yes, this is a constitutional crisis and the court needs to step in. But so far, it has been the wrong court.
#constitutionalcrisis. #DOGE. #JudgeEngelmayer. #districtcourtjudges
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