MSNBC Legal Analyst Danny Cevallos pushed back on the idea that President Donald Trump was creating a “constitutional crisis” During an appearance on “Morning Joe” on Tuesday.
“I think we should be careful with the term” constitutional crisis, “because, as I define, that would be a situation in which the constitution has no answer and there is an urgent conflict,” Cevallos said. “The flurry of executive orders, the chaos, of which I think it does not bring us to crisis. It is annoying for the courts, it is a challenge. It can lead to a serious problem like you said, to overload them be dealing with these orders “
Msnbc -gas gentleman Mika Brzezinski referred to the New York Times, which published a report with Various legal scientists who argue That Trump created a ‘constitutional crisis’.
“The crisis is taking place and we have already discussed it when there is a judicial order and the president or the administration refuses to follow it, because historically we do not really have a clear answer for what we should do in it, situation, “He added.
MSNBC Legal Analyst Danny Cevallos argued against painting the executive orders of President Trump as causing a constitutional crisis. (Screenshot/msnbc)
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Democrats, including Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Also argued that Trump was creating a constitutional crisis.
Cevallos also said that in his first term, Trump spent flurries of executive orders and that he did the same in his second.
“The issue of a number of executive orders, not only do we know that the courts can handle it, they already did this in 2017. This is the same Mo who would simply dispose of the Trump administration – it felt like they were ‘I check They even, “he said.” It is probably not the most efficient way to do it. It’s chaotic. As you said, it’s problematic, it’s problematic, it’s problematic. “
President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th presidential inauguration in the Rotunda of the American Capitol in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“But” Constitutional Crisis “For me, the moment the court issues an order and the administration is resisting. You could say that the last remarkable event was when (former President Richard) Nixon initially refused to comply with a summons of the Supreme Court He finally capitulated, “Cevallos added. “But history is full of these near-crisis examples. The question is, what do we do in the future?”
Various actions of the Trump government, such as the Federal financing freezing and the obstacle of the Department of Government Efficiencies (Doge) Access to personal datahave been challenged by Democratic Attorneys General and various states that have affected the implementation orders.
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Trump and vice -president JD Vance have reduced the restrictive orders of the judges.
The President’s doj specifically Said that the court’s decision to prohibit the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Dead) to gain access to personal data “anti-backitutional”.
