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Feldman writes: "For the first time since President Richard Nixon refused to turn over the White House tapes, the United States is facing a genuine constitutional crisis."

Anti-Trump protest. (photo: Getty)
Anti-Trump protest. (photo: Getty)


This Is a Constitutional Crisis. What Happens Next?

By Noah Feldman, The New York Times

11 October 19


With a full-on confrontation between the House and the president, no simple resolution is available.

or the first time since President Richard Nixon refused to turn over the White House tapes, the United States is facing a genuine constitutional crisis.

To be sure, Donald Trump had already created a crisis in the presidency by abusing the power of his office to pressure foreign governments to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. But that act on its own didn’t count as a constitutional crisis, because the Constitution prescribes an answer to presidential abuse of office: impeachment.

Now that President Trump has announced — via a letter signed by Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel — that he will not cooperate in any way with the impeachment inquiry begun in the House of Representatives, we no longer have just a crisis of the presidency. We also have a breakdown in the fundamental structure of government under the Constitution. That counts as a constitutional crisis.

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