US EditionWhite House Takes Aim at Judicial System as Trump Provokes Constitutional Crisis
- Donald Trump has initiated numerous legal challenges which have shifted political conflict towards the courts, creating hopes and fears for various political entities involved.
- Vice-President JD Vance questioned the extent of judicial power over executive decisions, while critics argue that Trump is provoking a constitutional crisis.
- Legal experts warn that ongoing assaults on the judicial system threaten the foundation of judicial review.
- The White House has stated that the courts lack legal basis for their injunctions and remains optimistic about vindication in the face of ongoing lawsuits.
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Our Opinion: Acknowledging the red lines between US and constitutional crisis
Republican members of Congress and President Trump's backers everywhere should acknowledge the red line that will be crossed if this court-ignoring rhetoric becomes reality. Else, America will no longer be a country governed by three branches but a fiefdom with…
Constitutional scholar on whether Trump’s actions are executive overreach
The first weeks of the Trump administration have brought dramatic changes to the shape, scope and function of the federal government. Geoff Bennett speaks with constitutional scholar Ilya Shapiro about President Trump’s expanded view of executive authority for our new series, On Democracy.
In the first weeks of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has not stopped exhibiting his political power. Ever since he took office on January 20, Trump has ordered the suspension of all new asylum applications, cancelled the resettlement of refugees, frozen government recruitment and spending, partially emptied the agencies set up by Congress, taken steps to ban the gender transition of adolescents, and offered a finiquito agreement fo…
Donald Trump’s multifront offensive threatens constitutional order and political stability
With the Republicans holding majorities in both the Senate and House of Representatives, the resistance to the Trump administration has moved from the legislative branch to the judicial branch
Corporate Journalists Think Everything Trump Does Is a ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Corporate Journalists Think Everything Trump Does Is a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Democrats and their corporate media allies like to quietly redefine political terms to suit their needs. Threats to “democracy” are really threats to unaccountable, left-of-center government bureaucracy; “misinformation,” along with its “dis-” and “mal-” cousins, is any fact or narrative that is inconvenient for the political left; and basically anyone or anything wh…
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