MSNBC legal analyst pushes back on 'Morning Joe' co-hosts sounding alarm on 'constitutional crisis'

MSNBC ineligible expert Danny Cevallos pushed backmost connected the conception that President Donald Trump was creating a "constitutional crisis" during an quality connected "Morning Joe" connected Tuesday. 

"I deliberation we request to beryllium cautious with the word ‘constitutional crisis’ because, arsenic I specify it, that would beryllium a concern wherever the Constitution doesn’t person an reply and determination is simply a pressing conflict," Cevallos said. "The flurry of enforcement orders, the chaos, that I deliberation doesn’t get america to situation yet. It is irritating for the courts, it is challenging. It could pb to a superior occupation if, arsenic you said, they go excessively congested with dealing with these orders."

MSNBC big Mika Brzezinski referenced The New York Times, who published a study with several ineligible scholars arguing that Trump was creating a "constitutional crisis." 

"The situation occurs and we’ve already talked astir it astatine the infinitesimal erstwhile determination is simply a tribunal bid and the president oregon the medication refuses to travel it, due to the fact that historically, we don’t truly person a wide reply for what to bash successful that situation," helium added.

MSNBC ineligible expert Danny Cevallos argued against coating President Trump's enforcement orders arsenic causing a law crisis.  (Screenshot/MSNBC)

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Democrats, including Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., besides argued that Trump was creating a law crisis.

Cevallos besides said that Trump issued flurries of enforcement orders successful his archetypal word and helium was doing the aforesaid successful his second. 

"Issuing a clump of enforcement orders, not lone bash we cognize that the courts tin grip it, they already did this backmost successful 2017. This is the aforesaid M.O. The Trump medication past would conscionable occurrence retired enforcement orders – it felt similar they weren’t adjacent spell checking them," helium said. "And past they would fto the courts prune them similar the proverbial bonsai tree, oregon they would conscionable retreat them and spell backmost to the drafting board. It’s astir apt not the astir businesslike mode of doing it. It’s chaotic. As you said, it’s problematic."

President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th statesmanlike inauguration successful the rotunda of the US Capitol successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"But ‘constitutional crisis’ for maine is the infinitesimal the tribunal issues an bid and the medication resists. You could accidental that the past notable occurrence was erstwhile [former President Richard] Nixon initially refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the Supreme Court. Eventually helium capitulated," Cevallos added. "But past is afloat of these near-crisis examples. The question is, what bash we bash going forward?"

Several of the Trump administration's actions, specified arsenic the federal backing freeze and the barring of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to idiosyncratic data, person been challenged by Democratic attorneys wide and respective states that took contented with the enforcement orders.

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Trump and Vice President JD Vance person pushed backmost connected the restraining orders from the judges.

The president's DOJ specifically said that the judge's determination to barroom the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing idiosyncratic information was "anti-constitutional."