“See you in Court”
This week, On the Media took another look at reoccurring controversial issues happening around the country; specifically, protesting in its various forms. The segment began addressing the blockade on President Trump’s travel ban. Although this act is not commonly referred to as a form of protesting, it is a way to defy an order by utilizing the judicial system. Hoping to avoid a constitutional crisis seems to be getting more difficult every single day. With the constant protests, jabs, reactions, and consequences, it has tried the stability of the constitution as we know it. The problem I see is the lack of unity. The checks and balances system is an important component of government. Although, if the system is used improperly and nothing can get done, the American people suffer.
There seems to be a rise of hypocritical viewpoints damaging free speech on both ends of the spectrum. For example, Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor for Breitbart News, was asked to give a speech at U.C. Berkeley. Disregarding his viewpoints, approximately 1,500 "protestors" arrived on campus and began knocking down barricades, lighting fires, throwing rocks, breaking windows, and prevented the public speech to ever take place. Isn't the whole fight for equality for all? It doesn't matter whether you are far-left or far-right, a democracy is built on the combination and corraboration of all its citizens. This does not only include the rich and powerful or government officials, but even those with a small voice. Now, the Milo incident wasn't the only protest turn riot. It has and will continue happening all over the world at this current rate.
As a country, if we are to make the accusation of an inevitable constitutional crisis we should be able to identify and understand what it means. US Legal defines it as, "A constitutional crisis refers to a situation dealing with the inability to resolve a disagreement involving the governing constitution of a political body. Typically, a dispute or an interpretation or violation of a provision in the constitution between different branches of government is involved. A constitutional crisis may threaten to break down government function". If this is the case, are we really close to you a crisis? What qualifies a crisis and what are some of the signs for it? Constitution Daily gives five different scenarios of past events.
The Constitution Daily provides a history of different time periods where the United States experienced a constitutional crisis. These five instances include: when a president dies, states decide to leave the union, states can't agree on the presidential election, Watergate, and the Bush vs. Gore election. From each period of time, there are a couple consistencies between them. First, all but include an issue or the election of a president.
As a country, if we are to make the accusation of an inevitable constitutional crisis we should be able to identify and understand what it means. US Legal defines it as, "A constitutional crisis refers to a situation dealing with the inability to resolve a disagreement involving the governing constitution of a political body. Typically, a dispute or an interpretation or violation of a provision in the constitution between different branches of government is involved. A constitutional crisis may threaten to break down government function". If this is the case, are we really close to you a crisis? What qualifies a crisis and what are some of the signs for it? Constitution Daily gives five different scenarios of past events.
The Constitution Daily provides a history of different time periods where the United States experienced a constitutional crisis. These five instances include: when a president dies, states decide to leave the union, states can't agree on the presidential election, Watergate, and the Bush vs. Gore election. From each period of time, there are a couple consistencies between them. First, all but include an issue or the election of a president.
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