The most predictable guessing game in Washington, D.C., in the first three months of Donald Trump's second presidency has focused on not if he will spark a Constitutional crisis, but when.

Democrats lead the way with that questioning, joined by Republicans repulsed by Trump's penchant for trampling the U.S. Constitution whenever it obstructs his ambitions to punish and persecute people he perceives as his enemies.

But I think we can learn more by observing the behavior of Trump's most predictable enablers – Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, for instance – while trying to gauge how close we are to a constitutional crisis.

Our system of government is built on the concept of coequal branches of government keeping each other in check. So why did Alito feel compelled recently to remind the president that he must follow the law?

Trump has been two-timing his conservative allies on the Supreme Court, promising to comply with their rulings (in theory) on immigration matters while openly, flagrantly, not obeying at least one of their rulings (here in the real world).

Alito sounds nervous. His judicial........

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