Upending and Settling at Times, It's Not a Crisis

This week in Trumplandia, the hue and cry of “Constitutional crisis” got significantly louder. I touched on this in last week’s column, but it deserves further examination. At first, it was primarily left-leaning scholars, journalists and politicians. You can find the various legal arguments for why in this week’s New York Times article, “Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say.” The dean of UC Berkeley law school, Edwin Chemerinsky, lists the various executive actions, including efforts to end birthright citizenship, shuttering USAID seemingly overnight, firing the heads of independent agencies, and apparently canceling federal grants and spending authorized by Congress. Though many of these moves have been temporarily blocked by judicial injunctions, that has in no way quieted the storm. Read Full Article »