WH Says It's Judges — Not Trump — Causing a 'Constitutional Crisis'

In the weeks since Donald Trump returned to office, Democrats and legal scholars have warned that he’s provoking a constitutional crisis by trying to expand his power and ignore laws that stand in his way.

On Wednesday, the White House had a new response to that. It’s not the president who is causing the problem, said press secretary Karoline Leavitt, it’s the judges who are blocking some of his agenda by saying it's illegal.

“We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law,” Leavitt told reporters. She insisted that “the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch.”