We are facing a constitutional crisis
We are facing a constitutional crisis. Donald Trump, with the support of an increasingly complicit right-wing majority on the Supreme Court, is attacking the very foundation of our democracy: the separation of powers.
Trump has begun dismantling key federal agencies by impounding funds allocated by Congress — like those for USAID — and mass-firing federal workers in departments like the Department of Education.
These actions are blatantly unconstitutional.
Our Constitution is crystal clear: it is the job of Congress, not the president, to create and fund our federal agencies. When a president willfully ignores this and the Supreme Court rubber-stamps it, we are no longer a nation of laws.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor put it powerfully in her recent dissent after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to gut the Department of Education:
This is straight out of the playbook for authoritarian regimes: concentrate power in the executive, eliminate independent institutions, and silence dissent. We cannot allow it to happen here.
I'm fighting to defend the Constitution and demand accountability, and I need you with me.
Keep speaking out, showing up, and calling out the corruption. If the Court won't defend the Constitution, We the People have to.
Onward,
Jeff
