Actions of the Trump White House after the first 100 days of the president’s second administration have many conservative never-Trumpers as well as liberals warning of a “constitutional crisis.” Pro-MAGA populists and conservatives would disagree, even argue that Trump is saving the Constitution from the “woke” constraints imposed by Presidents Biden and Obama.

“Claims of a constitutional crisis are overblown, if not completely imaginary,” conservative Berkeley Law Prof. John Yoo wrote for the Civitas Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a visiting scholar. “Critics would have a better claim to credibility if they were not so obviously partisan. These same authority figures did not warn of a constitutional crash when President Joseph Biden, without congressional authorization, forgave an estimated $400 billion in federal student debt – a constitutional ‘power grab’ if there ever was one, and a far cry from anything Elon Musk’s efficiency drive will find in cuts.”

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