How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.

Trump officials are engineering legal pretexts in advance to shield unconstitutional actions, using law as a tactical defense to undermine judicial enforcement and entrench executive power.
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