Fight the Constitutional Crisis

We are in a constitutional crisis. Since day one, the Trump (and unelected billionaire Elon Musk) administration have defied constitutional law to engage in aggressive executive overreach. They have co-opted Congress’s “power of the purse,” dismantled segments of the federal government without legal authority, and have begun to defy the court orders in response to this blatant disregard for the law and the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.

The lawlessness has been vast:

• Through a litany of executive orders and with the help of Musk, Trump has unilaterally blocked congressionally appropriated funds from being distributed, a power that is exclusively assigned to Congress

• A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the “plain text” of his previous court order requiring the release of federally appropriated payments to federal programs. A senior official fired several FEMA workers who refused to continue blocking funding for various programs

• In multiple social media posts and podcasts, JD Vance has stated that the executive branch can ignore judicial rulings, even those made by the Supreme Court.

Legal scholars agree that presidential defiance of laws and judicial rulings is a constitutional crisis, and it is clear that the Trump administration believes the law does not apply to them. Normally, the Department of Justice could be enlisted to enforce these laws, Attorney General Pam Bondi, known Trump loyalist, will not do so. It will now be up to the courts and Congress to reclaim their co-equal roles in our government and stop the Trump administration’s reckless decimation of our government and the rule of law.