The Week With Monique | Are We In A Constitutional CRISIS?!
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hi everybody it's Monique Presley welcome elimination this is the week with Monique so This week, the conversation has been ratcheting up and ratcheting up. Constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis. Is it one already? Isn't it? It's already been one for a long time. We're still approaching one. And it seems that more and more we're leaning toward the scholars and all the pundits and everybody in between saying that we are in one. Well, I don't know if I agree with that or not. I'm gonna go with facts and data and talk to you about it and see where we land, but here's my point. Even if we're already in a constitutional crisis, now what? Isn't that the question that's on everybody's mind? So I hope I'm gonna be able to answer that.
But first, when you hear people saying, we are approaching a constitutional crisis, we are in a constitutional crisis, do you even know what that means? Let me give you a definition. In political science, a constitutional crisis is a problem or conflict in the function of a government that the political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve. I'm gonna say it again. In political science, in this country, a constitutional crisis is a problem or conflict, we've got plenty of those, right? A problem or conflict in the function of a government that the political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve. Now, there are many variations for the way that this can all shake out.
You can describe the crisis that arises out of a failure or a strong risk of failure of the Constitution of the governing document, or the crisis may be because of a failure of a particular branch of government or multiple branches of government that are either not following the Constitution or failing to be able to do their duties under the Constitution. You can have a branch of government that wants to pass a law that is contrary to the Constitution and they're not willing to go through the steps to amend the Constitution for their actions to be lawful. Any of this sound familiar? Or it may be that it's something that's just completely politically infeasible to follow. We know the right way to do it, but circumstances have been created such that it would be a catastrophe for us to go through with it.
The government institutions themselves may falter or fail to live up to what the law prescribes them to be, or officials in the government may justify avoiding dealing with a serious problem based on narrow interpretations of the law. Now I'm here to tell you friends, We've seen every last one of those, like in the past seven days, we've seen some variation of it where the judicial branch in some part is acquiescing or not doing what it needs to be doing on the Supreme Court side of things, where they need to be dropping the hammer and they're not, where the legislature is kowtowing. just in complete allegiance to Trump instead of to the Constitution of the United States or the people who are the governing body for the Constitution of the United States.
We've seen the executive branch being lawless, being amoral, being criminal, and what else is new. I mean, that's their brand. That's what they do. So hearing all of that, there's an argument to be made that we're there, right? We see where they're There are failings after failings where there's an executive branch attempting to do things that are clearly outside of the law and having to be sued time and time and time again. We see the legislative branch not really doing a damn thing, which means they, according to this definition, are not meeting up to what their definition is under the Constitution. The way that their responsibilities are described, they're not doing it. That's a problem. We see another branch of government, the judiciary, where at least at the top level of government, it seems that they're no longer willing to acknowledge settled law.
They're no longer willing to abide by it. That's how Roe v. Wade got overturned.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:33
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What does 'constitutional crisis' mean in political science terms?
5:33–16:36
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Are we already in a constitutional crisis according to recent events?
16:36–18:54
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Which government branches are failing to follow the Constitution right now?
18:54–22:02
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