Senator warns of US getting \u2018closer to a constitutional crisis\u2019 as Samuel Alito\u2019s dissent signals deference to Trump<\/p>\n
Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar<\/a> warned on Sunday that the US is \u201cgetting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis\u201d, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration<\/a> policies, and public protest were holding it off.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,\u201d Klobuchar told CNN\u2019s State of the Union, adding \u201cbut Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator warns of US getting \u2018closer to a constitutional crisis\u2019 as Samuel Alito\u2019s dissent signals deference to Trump Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is \u201cgetting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis\u201d, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off. \u201cI … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}