OPINION | The system may have held—barely—on Jan. 6. But it plainly wasn’t “working.”
The definition of just what is a Constitutional crisis may be debated, but in plain English it’s where the structure of our Constitution is stressed or broken.’s retort to the Supreme Court recognizing Native Americans represented independent nations, and could not be removed from their tribal lands, is one example. Jackson said about Justice Marshall's ruling, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.
That evidence included the 61 cases where courts have rejected Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud, the concerns that some of Trump’s advisors had about his actions , and the extensive planning ahead of the election results to violently stop the peaceful transfer of power.today’s ruling The system might be operating, but it’s not actually checking the efforts that Trump and his enablers—which include current members of Congress, as well as many federal, state, and local candidates who all join him in denying the legitimacy of the election—are making to undermine the rule of law.
It is DOJ and Merrick Garland that are tasked with enforcement of the laws and, thus far, their tardiness has helped inflame a crisis, because any potential prosecutions will come too late to have leveled the playing field before the midterm elections.
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