The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns constitutional crises. Leftists tend to scream about constitutional crises because the Trump administration is moving extremely fast in an attempt to save the United States and bring peace to the world.
One of the tasks of the Trump administration is to cut federal government costs. The nation can wait no longer to bring the debt under control, or the United States of America will go bankrupt. Trump brought in Elon Musk and his team of geniuses who are finding much waste and possible fraud, and Leftists are screaming about constitutional crisis. Jacob Hess, staff writer for the Deseret News, discussed the situation.
No one disagrees that the new White House
administration is moving very quickly. But do steps being taken amount to a
legitimate constitutional crisis, as many are now alleging?
“I think we should be careful in
describing our situation as a constitutional crisis. It’s a term that we should
save for a real emergency,” said Yuval Levin, director of Social, Cultural and
Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), in a recent
interview with Deseret News executive editor, Doug Wilks.
“It has to mean something, and I don’t
think we’re in a place where we can say that.”
Levin explained, “A lot of our
constitutional politics is a matter of action and reaction. We’ve seen a lot of
actions from the president so far, and the question of what reactions are going
to look like is still an open question. So, I think it’s much too soon to talk
about a constitutional crisis. We have to see how the system responds to the
pressures it’s under.”
When Levin was asked about whether he
worried about the U.S. and its current resilience, the scholar acknowledged, “It
makes sense to worry in a moment like this, when there’s a lot of pressure
being put on the system.”
But he qualified: “I don’t think it makes
sense to panic in this moment. We’re not in a place where the fundamentals of
the system are being undermined. We’re in a place where the structure is being
challenged, and that happens on a fairly regular basis in the American system
of government.”
Levin’s views are aligned with other
political science experts we’ve spoken with at Deseret News in recent weeks. …
What is it, then, that constitutes a true
constitutional crisis? And what are the factors and relevant context to help us
know if and when that’s taking place?
Those we spoke with pointed to the
founders’ original design for a system allowing for vigorous push-and-pull
between competing powers as backdrop for what we’re witnessing….
“I’d consider it ‘crisis,’” Curry said, “if
over the long term power is overwhelmingly and broadly handed to one branch to
such a degree that the other branches become meaningless or unimportant to
governance.”
“A constitutional crisis is when there is
extreme ambiguity and open conflict over the prerogatives of the three major
branches of government designated by the U.S. Constitution,” said Self, adding
that such a crisis could be recognized when institutional rules outlined in a
constitution “no longer constrain” the most powerful actors, specifically the
central executive. “We can think of this as whether there is the Rule of Law or
not.” …
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