“Constitutional Crisis” Is the New Dem Buzzword

Will they ever learn?

Democrats and the media (I repeat myself) spent the entire 2024 campaign comparing Donald Trump to Hitler. It became so absurd, that people just tuned out. Yeah, yeah, the guy joking with President Obama at Carter’s funeral and pledging to shrink government is Hitler, we got it.

After Trump’s stunning electoral win, the Hitler talk went out the window. Never fear, however, because Democrats have a new catchphrase to endlessly and relentlessly toss around on cable news: Constitutional Crisis

As it turns out, when a duly elected President attempts to wield his presidential authority and reign in the executive branch over which he is tasked with running, it’s a constitutional crisis if some circuit court judge in Oregon says so:

The “constitutional crisis” memo went out…

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— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) February 11, 2025

It became so ridiculous this week that a judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to restore web pages that had been removed. That’s right, judges are now web developers too:

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore web pages and datasets that were taken down in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Under U.S. District Judge John Bates’ order, HHS, the CDC and the FDA are required to restore data sets and pages that were “removed or substantially modified” last month “without adequate notice or reasoned explanation.”

Earlier this month, Doctors for America, represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a lawsuit against the Office of Personal Management (OPM), the CDC, the FDA and HHS for removing information that it says was used by doctors and researchers

“Doctors for America” used to be called “Doctors for Obama” and is merely a left-wing front organization. No real doctor spends time reading government websites to figure out courses of treatment for a patient.

Where does the constitution explicitly state that once a government agency posts content on a website, it must stay there until the end of time or America risks falling into a constitutional crisis? It doesn’t, of course, government websites change all the time. However, when the changes involve liberal sacred cows like transing of children, then those web pages can never be removed according to one activist judge.

As Scott Jennings rightly pointed out to an aghast CNN panel, the constitutional crisis is being launched by these activist judges trying to use power they don’t have and prevent the President from running the executive branch of the government:

If there’s a “constitutional crisis” it’s caused by activist federal district judges with narrow jurisdictions usurping the powers of the presidency. @GovChrisSununu and I take on the left last night on @cnn. It’s just more lawfare against Trump. pic.twitter.com/yvZPXyXaGK

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) February 11, 2025

Jennings is correct, of course, but any sane person already knows that. The same people screaming that Elon Musk wasn’t elected are quick to ignore that none of these judges trying to set policy were elected either.

Joy Pullmann, writing at the Federalist, echoes Jennnings’ comments that it’s Democrats causing the constitutional crisis, not Trump:

Because this cancer has advanced so far, Trump may be the last president who can wrestle down the administrative state instead of merely acting as its puppet. He’s certainly giving it the WWE treatment.

Yet it’s impossible for the real Constitution to win if anti-Constitution judges and courts can tell the president he cannot govern his own employees and agencies. It’s impossible for the real Constitution to win if the American people are forced to fund the Constitution’s enemies. “Progressives” demand a fight with both arms tied behind the Constitution’s back.

Democrats want to subjugate Americans to unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges, not protect self-government. They want a slave empire, not a representative republic.

If a single federal judge can tell a President that he can’t edit a web page or examine where Treasury payments are going, then what is the point of holding elections? If the bureaucracy is so entrenched and so protected that the people are not allowed to ask questions and demand answers, then we have entered a constitutional crisis courtesy of unelected activist judges and the Democratic Party. Then again, small-d democracy has never been an acceptable left-wing tenet.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal put out an editorial on the topic once again pointing out that nothing President Trump has done is causing a “constitutional crisis.” To the contrary, it seems like anything Democrats don’t like is grounds for a crisis of some kind:

Progressives hyperventilated that the administration was poised to defy judicial rulings that run counter to the Trump agenda. In fact, Mr. Vance was pointing out — correctly — that, under the separation of powers, there are limits to judicial oversight of “the executive’s legitimate power.” Note the word “legitimate.” As Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule wrote in The Wall Street Journal this week, it is not unusual for judges to determine that “the courts ought not to be the ones to decide a given issue.”

Of course, presidents — or anyone else, for that matter — are not free to pick and choose which judicial rulings to respect or disregard. A healthy democratic republic cannot function that way. The proper recourse is to appeal unfavorable decisions, which is precisely what the White House has done. The fact that Mr. Trump is provoking legal challenges in hopes that the administration will prevail in the courts doesn’t constitute a “crisis.” If the president doesn’t have some authority over federal agency workers, who does?

Good question. If the President can’t control agencies of unelected bureaucrats spending American tax dollars, then what has become of our republic? There’s no question the President is well within his power to demand audits, trim down staff levels, and even eliminate entire agencies like USAID. Democrats are just not used to losing so much so quickly that they don’t know what else to do other than dial the fear-mongering and pearl-clutching up to 11 and call everything Trump does a “constitutional crisis.”

Democrats were gung ho when they demanded President Biden ignore court rulings and move forward with student loan forgiveness. That move would’ve cost taxpayers billions. In the case of President Trump and DOGE trimming down government, taxpayers are saving billions which is something the Democratic Party is vehemently against.

It wasn’t always this way. Flashback to 1993 when a new team was headed to Washington with bold ideas about cutting waste and streamlining government:

Democrats are always the "do as I say not as I do" party.

Back in 1993, then President Clinton and Vice-President Gore had their own form of DOGE, -REGO, (Reinventing Government.) Clinton's main initiative? To balance the budget.

Bill Clinton got rid of 377,000 Federal jobs.… pic.twitter.com/f9komsYC41

— 👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 (@TheEXECUTlONER_) February 12, 2025