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Opinion: Panic politics: Law professors’ umpteenth ‘constitutional crisis’ falls flat
The Hill ^ | March 8, 2025 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 03/08/2025 12:46:17 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

It’s only March, and we have yet another declaration of a “constitutional crisis.”

The latest dire declaration comes from roughly 950 law professors, who refer generally to actions and policies implemented by President Trump as “beyond his constitutional or statutory authority.”

So — what happens if the “experts” hold a crisis and no one shows up?

After years of such claims, the perpetual crisis has left a dwindling number of people inclined to panic. Many simply have more pressing matters at the moment and have the same reaction of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”

The latest letter follows a familiar pattern that has played out like a political perpetual motion machine since the first Trump impeachment. It works something like this: A legal academy composed of largely liberal academics announces a “constitutional crisis” caused by conservatives, and then a largely liberal media runs the story with little scrutiny or skepticism. On most echo-chambered media sites, the public rarely hears an opposing view......

Law schools are not unique. A survey conducted by the Harvard Crimson shows that more than three-quarters of Harvard Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty respondents identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Only 2.5 percent identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4 percent as “very conservative.” A 2017 study found that only 15 percent of faculty members were conservative. Another analysis found that 33 out of 65 departments lacked even a single conservative faculty member.

In other words, it is embarrassingly easy to get 1,000 law professors to sign off on letters claiming endless constitutional crises caused by Trump or conservatives.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: caralarm; constitutionalcrisis; gaslighting; hysterics; law; liberalpanic; panic
To quote Fettman: 'We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarm'
1 posted on 03/08/2025 12:46:17 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Liberals only care about the Constitution when they are being prosecuted for violating it.


2 posted on 03/08/2025 1:01:50 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

77 million Americans disagreed with you 950 ‘Law Professors’.


3 posted on 03/08/2025 1:15:40 PM PST by richardtavor ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Good article. I’m a little surprised that The Hill published it.


4 posted on 03/08/2025 1:20:58 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We all know this but they put teeth in it with the persecution of John Eastland and a host of other Trump attorneys who counter them.

Trump has started taking the fight to them by pulling clearances.

But real investigations and charges against fraudulent lawfare which is typically coordinated behind the scenes are needed.

And a DoJ that goes after the Bar associations across the country.


5 posted on 03/08/2025 1:21:10 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Where were the 950 law professors when the Biden gang was sabotaging the Republic?


6 posted on 03/08/2025 1:22:52 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The real constitutional crisis is this signed agreement between 14 states to coordinate lawsuits challenging President Trump's executive actions.

Here is a pdf of the signed agreement between the states.

https://oversight.heritage.org/DOGE_Common_Interest_Agreement_NM.pdf

This smacks of an unconstitutional agreement between the states that has not been consented to by Congress.

Article I Section 9

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

-PJ

7 posted on 03/08/2025 1:26:02 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Law professors, and law schools are the crisis and the reason why ‘conservative’ judge picks end up liberals. There’s a Leftist political cocoon surrounding all of law, and social and professional ostracism for dissidents.


8 posted on 03/08/2025 1:26:22 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.”

There is nothing ‘liberal’ about these people.


9 posted on 03/08/2025 1:43:27 PM PST by dljordan
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“constitutional crisis” is the latest DNC digital working group faxed in talking point term to push. Their media sycophants are too lazy and uninspired to do anything more than just repeat it verbatim.

I wonder how many are still waiting on their latest USAID ‘paid troll and shill’ check that will never come.


10 posted on 03/08/2025 1:45:57 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Political Junkie Too

Copilot cannot find any valid information on this document.
Doesn’t mean its fake, but...


11 posted on 03/08/2025 2:28:52 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: PubliusMM
I got it from this Gateway Pundit story from this FR thread.

-PJ

12 posted on 03/08/2025 2:33:40 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

But this time there really IS wolf!/s


13 posted on 03/08/2025 4:05:46 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yup, Political Junkie Too, I saw it there, too.
Just saying that popular AI apps don’t find it. Might be time lag, but...
I’ll check it again, tomorrow.


14 posted on 03/08/2025 4:14:07 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: PubliusMM
I just checked with the Perplexity AI https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-oversight-project-0CMcPJWAT5eHlkF6CK85kQ and it gave me a link to another copy of the agreement from Vermont:

https://ago.vermont.gov/sites/ago/files/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2021-11-29-Gengler-response-to-Hardin-w-docs_Part5.pdf

The first one I linked to from the GP article was from New Mexico.

This looks real.

-PJ

15 posted on 03/08/2025 4:24:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

So...it looks like it may be legitimate, but why the 2020 dates? Has this conspiracy been formalized for the last four years, and we didn’t know it?
Still ‘iffy’, but needs a closer look, certainly.
Thanks for digging.


16 posted on 03/08/2025 5:06:00 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: PubliusMM
why the 2020 dates?

My guess is that they thought President Trump would win reelection. Nobody in January 2020 anticipated the swing states simultaneously stopping counting and then the 2:00am ballot drops that swung the election to Biden.

-PJ

17 posted on 03/08/2025 5:16:52 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Fai Mao

Boy cries wolf daily for 50 years, gets another blue ribbon.


18 posted on 03/08/2025 6:01:36 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Political Junkie Too

*among*


19 posted on 03/09/2025 4:07:38 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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