{"id":12475,"date":"2018-09-05T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:40:17","slug":"constitutional-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/05\/constitutional-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2420,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theatlantic.com\\\/ideas\\\/archive\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/this-is-a-constitutional-crisis\\\/569443&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260227131731\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.theatlantic.com\\\/ideas\\\/archive\\\/2018\\\/09\\\/this-is-a-constitutional-crisis\\\/569443\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 11:45:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 07:56:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 18:12:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 18:12:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\u201cImpeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/09\/this-is-a-constitutional-crisis\/569443\/\">Overt defiance of presidential authority by the president\u2019s own appointees\u2014now that\u2019s a constitutional crisis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the president\u2019s closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high office, they have a duty to do their utmost to remove him from it, by the lawful means at hand. That duty may be risky to their careers in government or afterward. But on their first day at work, they swore an oath to defend the Constitution\u2014and there were no \u2018riskiness\u2019 exemptions in the text of that oath.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImpeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional mechanism. Overt defiance of presidential authority by the president\u2019s own appointees\u2014now that\u2019s a constitutional crisis. \u201cIf the president\u2019s closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high &#8230; <a title=\"Constitutional Crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/09\/05\/constitutional-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Constitutional Crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}