Jim Himes on Deportation Orders: Trump Is ‘Exploring the Threshold of Ignoring a Court Order’

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HIMES: “You know, we've been, as you pointed out, throwing that term around pretty sloppily in the last two months or so. But the definition of a constitutional crisis, of course, is when you have no way to resolve two branches of government warring with each other. And, you know, you see exactly what's happening here. It's a very interesting moment because this is what Donald Trump does in life, right? You see him exploring the threshold of ignoring a court order, knowing because he said so before and because his people know this, that that is very serious business, that that is a constitutional crisis. So, they're throwing every mad legal theory up against the wall. They're dissembling, they're taking their time and everything. And I'll tell you, we've seen this movie a hundred times before. If these courts don't stand up very quickly and say, we are going to hold individuals in contempt and start doing some of the things that courts can do when they hold individuals in contempt, you can bet that next week the encroachment will be a little bit bigger. And pretty soon this administration will be entirely ignoring court orders.”