A fateful moment looms as Trump’s team seeks to bypass the judiciary

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Trump has long advanced the belief that the presidency confers ultimate power, even though this conflicts with the principles of a nation built on revulsion of rule by an absolute monarch. “I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,” he said in July 2019, during his first term. Article II of the Constitution lays out the duties of the presidency – but it does not confer unfettered executive authority.

People don’t normally reach the heights of the West Wing without understanding the basics of history and American jurisprudence. So the comments by Miller and Homan seem to hint at a second-term corps of officials keen to fulfill Trump’s dreams of kingly might.

“Where it gets scary and this is what was so frightening about the interview is when he starts saying ‘I don’t care what the courts say – we have the right to do it anyway’ and he wouldn’t even commit to following even a Supreme Court order’ – that’s why we are so obviously in a constitutional crisis,” Brettschneider said