Jeanie Hannaman

By Scott McKay, Contributing Editor, The American Spectator - You’ve almost certainly noticed that a new narrative has begun emanating from the usual sources in the past few days. We’re now in a “crisis,” or a “constitutional crisis.”... You’re hearing this everywhere in the legacy corporate propaganda press, and it’s being reported as emanating from the “unelected” Elon Musk and his DOGE prodigies applying a Big Data screen to federal spending and illuminating the amazing levels of waste and fraud built into the governmental fisc.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch... What’s happening right now is that Democrats, having been thrown out of power by American voters in a landslide victory for Trump, have decided they’re going to deploy a widely-used tactic from Trump’s first term to thwart the president’s agenda: use the federal judiciary. Under the false pretext that the lower federal courts are part of a “coequal branch of government” with the executive, they’re aiming to shut down Trump’s reform efforts with a fusillade of preliminary injunctions.

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post - Democrat strategist Ruy Teixeira gets it, and he’s trying to sound the alarm. “Trump occupies the high ground in this fight,” he writes at The Free Press, “which is probably why he and Musk picked it. … USAID is a 10,000-employee bureaucracy — housed in a palatial building on prime downtown real estate — that spends $40 billion a year on other countries.”... As Teixeira adds: “Democrats are unconditionally defending an obscure government institution at a time when even well-known and previously trusted institutions are regarded with intense suspicion.”