DENVER – Four Democratic Attorneys General sat on stage at George Washington High School on Wednesday night, trying to decide if the limits of their power to resist this White House as lawyers has been reached.
“This is the first time, this week, in the past days, where I really think we’re getting to the precipice of a constitutional crisis,” Nick Brown, the attorney general from Washington state, told a crowd assembled to hear what the justice system can do for them in this moment of great trial. “I don’t say that lightly.”
President Donald Trump’s administration has called for the impeachment of judges, slow-walked court orders and, this week, so brazenly challenged a district court judge that court proceedings are now focused on whether administration officials should be held in contempt.