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The Constitutional War Power in Crisis: Executive Overreach and the Erosion of Congressional Authority in the Second Trump Administration

Abstract. The second Trump administration has tested the constitutional allocation of war powers with an aggressiveness that, while continuous with a long trajectory of executive expansion, represents a cumulative escalation in both the number of concurrent unilateral military operations and the breadth of the legal theories advanced to justify them.

The Constitutional War Power in Crisis: Executive Overreach and the Erosion of Congressional Authority in the Second Trump Administration

The Executive as Legislature: Constitutional Structure and the Second Trump Administration's Systematic Displacement of Congressional Authority

How executive orders, impoundment, and institutional demolition are rewriting the separation of powers without amending the Constitution By Dr Craig Wright Constitutional crises do not always announce themselves. They sometimes arrive as administrative memoranda, OMB directives, and executive orders that individually appear to push familiar boundaries but collectively redraw the

The Executive as Legislature: Constitutional Structure and the Second Trump Administration's Systematic Displacement of Congressional Authority