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Jen Rubin: The Constitutional Crisis May be Upon Us
Jen Rubin - The Constitutional Crisis May be Upon Us
With Trump openly challenging the courts, democracy defenders must draw a line in the sand
Jennifer Rubin
Mar 19, 2025
It’s well past Day One, and Donald Trump seems to be continuing to embrace the role of dictator. He and his minions have asserted the power to snatch anyone off the streets under the pretext of a wartime statute and ship them off to a hellish foreign prison; to ignore or (at the least try) to outfox federal judges; to call for judges’ impeachment if they cross him; and to intimidate into silence critical reporting of all of this.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday, “President Trump attacked a federal judge who ordered a pause in deportations being carried out under an obscure wartime law, calling him a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ in a social media post as administration lawyers asserted that the judge had no power to stop the ejections.” This follows a series of statements and actions seemingly designed to egg on the courts toward a constitutional crisis.
Indeed, that latest outburst garnered an extraordinary public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts. “For more than two centuries,” the chief justice wrote in an issued statement, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Before the case concerning invocation of the Alien and Enemies Act reached the court, border czar Tom Homan declared, “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think — I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”
Once in court, the “Justice” Department attorneys denied the court had any business interfering with Trump’s deportation. When that didn’t work, they tried a premature appeal, which was swiftly rejected.
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With Trump openly challenging the courts, democracy defenders must draw a line in the sand
Jennifer Rubin
Mar 19, 2025
It’s well past Day One, and Donald Trump seems to be continuing to embrace the role of dictator. He and his minions have asserted the power to snatch anyone off the streets under the pretext of a wartime statute and ship them off to a hellish foreign prison; to ignore or (at the least try) to outfox federal judges; to call for judges’ impeachment if they cross him; and to intimidate into silence critical reporting of all of this.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday, “President Trump attacked a federal judge who ordered a pause in deportations being carried out under an obscure wartime law, calling him a ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ in a social media post as administration lawyers asserted that the judge had no power to stop the ejections.” This follows a series of statements and actions seemingly designed to egg on the courts toward a constitutional crisis.
Indeed, that latest outburst garnered an extraordinary public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts. “For more than two centuries,” the chief justice wrote in an issued statement, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Before the case concerning invocation of the Alien and Enemies Act reached the court, border czar Tom Homan declared, “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think — I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”
Once in court, the “Justice” Department attorneys denied the court had any business interfering with Trump’s deportation. When that didn’t work, they tried a premature appeal, which was swiftly rejected.
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