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Trump’s overreach risks a constitutional crisis

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21.04.2025

President Trump entered the White House believing that he had a large mandate to drastically reshape American domestic and foreign policy, and especially the role of the federal government.

Now, not even 100 days into Trump's second term, it’s clear that the administration is running the very real risk of overstepping its constitutional and political bounds.

And his focus on retribution against perceived political enemies opens the door for future Democratic presidents to retaliate against Trump or his allies.

As Holman Jenkins raised in the Wall Street Journal last week, there is the very real possibility that Trump’s actions lead to an unprecedented third impeachment.

To be sure, Trump’s overreach also risks undermining the rest of his term.

Americans wanted strong, stable leadership, which is why they elected Trump.

But, as Karl Rove noted, Americans are increasingly exhausted due to the never-ending parade of headlines and seemingly daily policy shifts being thrown at them from a directionless White House.

Further, Trump continues to show contempt for limits on presidential power in his quest to radically remake the federal government.

Indeed, in just the past three weeks: Trump’s unpredictable tariff policies sent financial markets into a tailspin, he is reportedly looking to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the administration is ignoring a unanimous Supreme Court ruling to return a wrongly-deported migrant and is essentially trying to put private universities under the supervision of the........

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