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Wicked Blue

(7,885 posts) Sun Apr 20, 2025, 11:36 AM Sunday

Sen. Chris Van Hollen says America is in a 'constitutional crisis' as Trump disregards court orders in the Abrego Garcia

Source: NBC

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., on Sunday accused President Donald Trump of sending the U.S. into a constitutional crisis, saying members of the Trump administration “are very much flouting the courts as we speak.”

Asked directly on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether the U.S. is currently in a constitutional crisis, Van Hollen said, “Yes, we are.”

The senator’s remarks come days after he returned from a trip to El Salvador where he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration admitted was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month.

Abrego Garcia has become the center of a weekslong legal and political battle, with the government multiple times contending in court that Abrego Garcia is now in the custody of El Salvador and there’s nothing it can do to bring him back.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/chris-van-hollen-america-constitutional-crisis-trump-abrego-garcia-rcna202018

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen says America is in a 'constitutional crisis' as Trump disregards court orders in the Abrego Garcia (Original Post) Wicked Blue Sunday OP

The SCOTUS really, really needs to revisit their immunity ruling and reverse it. nt MarineCombatEngineer Sunday #1

They made this shit an inevitability with that fucking decision. This is on their heads. Karasu Sunday #4

The military will have to choose at some point. twodogsbarking Sunday #2

You don't say? A Constitutional crisis, eh? Bluetus Sunday #3

MarineCombatEngineer

(15,108 posts)

1. The SCOTUS really, really needs to revisit their immunity ruling and reverse it. nt

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 11:52 AM

Sunday

Karasu

(978 posts)

4. They made this shit an inevitability with that fucking decision. This is on their heads.

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 07:55 PM

Sunday

twodogsbarking

(13,403 posts)

2. The military will have to choose at some point.

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 01:08 PM

Sunday

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Stay tuned.

Bluetus

(969 posts)

3. You don't say? A Constitutional crisis, eh?

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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 01:21 PM

Sunday

News flash: we have been in a constitutional crisis continuously since at least 2000 with Bush v Gore. And certainly Heller, and Citizen's United. The whole patriot act was a constitutional crisis, with Congress never declaring war in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The confirmation of the likes of Scalia, Alito, Beer Bong guy and all the others who refused to answer direct question about how they would inter[ret the law has been an ongoing constitutional crisis. The revelation of billionaires paying huge sums of money and other benefits to SC Justices is a constitutional crisis. The failure to disbar lawyers who are fighting against the rule of law is a constitutional crisis. And so on.

I am glad that 1/10 of 1% of the politicians and media are now willing to whisper this in public now. I guess that is progress. But we should have been dealing with this gathering constitutional crisis for the past 25 years.

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