Before journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s revelation that he’d been the unwitting witness to a private text thread discussing sensitive national security plans by the Trump White House, the Atlantic’s editor in chief hosted another busy episode of public television’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, where Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and Atlantic writer Michael helped him hype the “constitutional crisis” (the phrase appears 16 times in the show’s transcript) of Trump supposedly defying the U.S. judicial system, perhaps eventually the Supreme Court.
Host Jeffrey Goldberg: The Trump Administration's confrontation with the judicial branch raises new fears of a possible constitutional crisis….People throw around the term constitutional crisis all the time, and I include myself in the category of people here, but what does it actually mean? Would it be a constitutional crisis if the president defies a federal judge's order on the detention of immigrants? Are we already in such a crisis?….
