President Donald Trump’s ongoing conflict with New York is the latest chapter in his broader assault on the system of checks and balances, this time targeting federalism, getting closer to “absolute power consolidated in one person,” warns Kermit Roosevelt, constitutional law professor at Penn. While Congress appears to have consented to this takeover and judges work to hold the line, the American people, like generations before them, have stepped up, building a growing resistance movement.

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