Democrats accused Trump of provoking a constitutional crisis

Political opponents of US President Donald Trump from the Democratic Party believe that the actions of his administration threaten a full-scale constitutional crisis. This was reported by The Washington Post (WP) on February 8.

Some of Trump's opponents say - by seizing powers that the Constitution does not give him and imposing clashes with Congress and the courts - the US leader has put American democracy at risk.

According to the publication, disagreement between Democrats in Congress and the Trump administration on government spending, birthright citizenship, and control over governance has led the US leader's opponents to increasingly accuse him of threatening a full-blown constitutional crisis.

WP notes that some opponents of the president compare the situation in the country with the U.S. Civil War and the Watergate scandal and call him a dictator. The publication specifies that Republicans call such conclusions a dramatization of facts.

"The President of the United States cannot seize control of spending, and he cannot eliminate departments. Every day there is a new challenge to the Constitution," Senator Chris Murphy (Democrat from Connecticut) told WP.

According to Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, America will enter a phase of constitutional crisis if Trump ignores court orders.

In addition, WP notes that Democrats are criticizing entrepreneur Ilon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk," Congressman Jamie Raskin (Democrat of Maryland), a former constitutional law professor, said at a recent protest.

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Earlier, on February 6, a federal judge in the US city of Seattle, John Cohenor, once again blocked the US president's executive order to end birthright US citizenship.

On the same day, Americanist Konstantin Blokhin commented on the statement about the impending impeachment of Trump. According to him, members of the Democratic Party of the United States are talking about the forthcoming impeachment of the country's president to resonate in the media and support the negative image of the Republican Party in the media.

On February 4, the Associated Press (AP) reported that protests against Trump's first executive orders could take place in some US states. According to the publication, protesters have created several websites and social media accounts.

Before that, on January 20, immediately after the inauguration, Trump signed more than 200 new decrees. Among them, the introduction of a state of emergency on the border with Mexico. In addition, the American president repeatedly stated that he was going to cancel the granting of American citizenship by birthright.