CNN’s Jennings: ‘We Do Have a Constitutional Crisis and It’s Being Caused by These Judges’

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Jeff Poor 11 Feb 2025

Monday, on CNN’s “NewsNight,” CNN political contributor Scott Jennings reacted to claims President Donald Trump’s administration was somehow usurping the U.S. Constitution with its policy approach.

Jennings argued that the cause of the so-called “constitutional crisis” was not Trump but the federal judges trying to stop Trump.

He called it a continuation of “lawfare against Trump.”

“Let me read the tweet just so people understand,” host Abby Phillip said. “He wrote this on Sunday. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. ‘If a judge tried to command the attorney general on how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.’ The word legitimate is doing a lot of work here, but we do know that judges do get to say whether the executive is complying with the law or not. That’s been the case for decades, hundreds of years.”

“I think there’s a difference between saying whether you’re complying with the law and then you have these individual district court judges setting effectively broad federal policy that is specifically reserved for the president of the United States,” Jennings replied. “I think we do have a constitutional crisis and it’s being caused by these judges. They’re not here to tell us how to spend the money. They’re not here to set broad federal policy. That is the president’s job as elected by the people. These judges are supposed to be settling discreet, specific matters, not policy setting. I think Vance is right. I think Trump has a point. And these judges want nothing more to continue the lawfare against Trump.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/11/cnns-jennings-we-do-have-a-constitutional-crisis-and-its-being-caused-by-these-judges/

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The 'crisis' is nothing more than challenging what a federal judge perceives as his 'absolute authority'.

He is twisting law into something the Constitution does not support

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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
The President of the United States has ALL federal executive power under Article II of the Constitution.

Courts can stop him if he tries to steal power from other branches, like Biden did with student-loan forgiveness.

But activist judges stopping the President from exercising executive power—like auditing Treasury payments or recalling foreign-service officers—is a radical, dangerous, and unacceptable assault on the Constitution.

The appellate courts must immediately stay these lawless, ex parte TROs.

The Supreme Court must prepare itself to use the emergency docket to avert a constitutional crisis.

Congress must use its power of oversight and the purse to stop these lawless politicians in robes from subverting the will of American voters.

When courts lose their legitimacy, they lose their funding.