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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Inches The U.S. Closer To Constitutional Crisis
Huffington PostThe morning after a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump did what he often does when faced with a challenge: He launched a personal attack on Twitter at someone he saw as an opponent.
In his first public response to the nationwide halt of his week-old executive order, Trump appeared to suggest that U.S. District Judge James Robart of the Western District of Washington, who was appointed by a Republican president, wasnt legitimate and that his decision would soon be made irrelevant.
That kind of comment from a sitting president, legal experts warned, could lead to a constitutional crisis by eroding the independence of the judiciary and signaling to government agencies that they should ignore legal decisions that clash with the presidents agenda.
Already, the court of appeals will need to worry that if it rules against Judge Robart (as perhaps it should, on the legal merits), it will validate Trumps attack on the judiciary in the public mind, Eric Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago, wrote on Saturday. If it does not, Posner continued, the court of appeals will be seen as a partisan enemy of the president.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement on Friday night that the Justice Department will seek an emergency stay of this outrageous order. Spicer issued a nearly identical statement on Saturday morning ― but cut the word outrageous from the later version.
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Trump Inches The U.S. Closer To Constitutional Crisis (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Feb 2017
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)1. k&r, it's somewhat amusing that this judge is a conservative. FDT
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)2. Donald the Duck or DD is a constitutional crisis
Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)3. It seems it's easier
to get a new president than an qualified and experienced Judge.