Constitutional Crisis?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

image from "Hands Off" rally on 4/5/25

The Preamble does not contain, "I, the President" or "We the Oligarchy", but rather "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union...".

Our governmental officials, from the President down, are required to take an oath to “uphold the Constitution” because it contains guardrails against lawlessness and because it supports our civil liberties.  So what happens when the Constitution is ignored and/or abused?  What happens when the sacred oath is ignored or broken? Does that action create a “Constitutional Crisis”?

Within Trump’s first 100 days, there have been numerous occasions where an argument can be made that members of his administration have blatantly disregarded the principles found within the Constitution.  One can certainly begin with his unraveling of DEI, but when rulings by federal judges are ignored, we are fully in a Constitutional Crisis.  Administrative actions or inactions this coming week to rulings by D.C. Chief District Judge James Boasberg and U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis, will determine our question. How brazen and disloyal will Trump and his minions be?

Judge Boasberg has criticized the Trump administration for continuing its mass deportations of hundreds of alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act hours after he scheduled his March 15 hearing about pausing the flights and hours before the president's invocation of the act became public.

Then there’s the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal resident, who was not charged with a crime, but was swept up by ICE and sent to a prison in El Salvador. U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump administration to return Garcia to the U.S., but government officials claim that they can not bring him back because he was outside the reach of American laws.  If the administration ignores the judge’s orders and refuses to bring him back, then their next step toward fascism can be to round up anyone they consider to be an "enemy" and without due process of law, “whisk them off” to a foreign location and claim the action to be beyond their jurisdiction.

American liberty hangs in the balance. Our Constitution has survived previous waves of government repression, but will the courts allow the Trump Administration to shred the Constitution?  Only if we allow them.

CPW