President Trump and his administration ramped up their confrontation with the judiciary to extraordinary heights Monday, demanding that a judge whose ruling had incurred their disfavor should be removed from the case.

That move comes amid a still-murky controversy over the extent to which the White House ignored the judge’s earlier order in the high-profile deportation case.

Those details, dramatic in themselves, are part of a broader picture in which Trump and his allies have reacted with fury to judges who rule against them.

Billionaire Elon Musk has called for the impeachment of judges, and Vice President Vance has questioned the extent to which a president must obey the courts. Trump has, for years, attacked judges presiding over cases in which he is involved.

In another case where much remains unclear, a Lebanese professor at Brown University’s medical school was deported late last week, despite a judge’s order demanding that the courts be given 48 hours’ notice of any such move.

Now, some experts are warning of a full-blown constitutional crisis.

Mark Zaid, a prominent lawyer who has represented whistleblowers during both Democratic and Republican administrations, wrote on social media that the nation was moving rapidly toward such a crisis “where the Executive Branch refuses to abide by a judicial order.”

Zaid, who recently had his security clearance revoked by the Trump administration, added, “The Executive Branch does not get to decide to refuse to obey a court order simply because it does not like it. The more this happens, the less we will look like the America all of us grew up........

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