‘Constitutional hardball’ Levinson, who co-authored a 2009 paper trying to define a constitutional crisis, told me during Trump’s first administration that crisis is built into the Constitution.

“I don’t like the phrase ‘constitutional crisis’ because it has this contention that unless the whole system is up for grabs, we shouldn’t care about an 18- or 19-year-old kid in Chicago ...

Legal scholars have warned for years of a possible constitutional crisis if President Trump refuses to listen to the courts or follow the law. We may be in that moment now.

The last type of constitutional crisis — when different parts or branches of government are at loggerheads — might be the one we are most likely to see during Trump’s administration.

Incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) warned of a “constitutional crisis” if the House can’t swiftly elect a speaker. A law dating to the first Congress in 1789 requires the election of ...

The growing fallout from a public defender work stoppage could now set criminal defendants free across Massachusetts.

Sample said constitutional scholars have differed on what exactly defines a constitutional crisis. "The one thing we can say for certain is that it's not an on-off switch," Sample said of ...

How does one prepare for a constitutional crisis? Stock up on canned goods and copies of “The Federalist”? It might be best to take precautions if we really are, as Democrats say, on the verge ...

Sample said constitutional scholars have differed on what exactly defines a constitutional crisis. "The one thing we can say for certain is that it's not an on-off switch," Sample said of ...