On April 17, 2025, the League of Women Voters of the United States issued this statement:

It has now been 87 days since the start of the Trump administration. From the flagrant disregard for congressional authority and governmental checks and balances to defying Supreme Court orders to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back home, one thing is abundantly clear: our country is in a constitutional crisis.

Full statement: Press Release: LWV Declares United States in a “Constitutional Crisis,” Announces New Initiative to Mobilize Voters

The LWVUS declaration was then highlighted in this April 18 PBS News report clip with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joining host William Brangham: www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brooks-and-capehart-on-trumps-faceoff-with-the-courts.

Jonathan Capehart:

I am glad you read that, because I was shaking, I was nodding in agreement with the League of Women Voters.

How can you say that the president hasn't defied court orders? You have got Judge Boasberg, who is threatening to — says yesterday that there's probable cause to charge the government or lawyers arguing on behalf of the government with criminal contempt.

Why? Because the president of the United States and his administration ignored his order to not deport those folks to El Salvador. So, I know there are these formal definitions of what a constitutional crisis is, but from where I sit in my "Schoolhouse Rock!" knowledge of how our government is supposed to work…

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