From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome for Free Expression from the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.

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And if you're in the mood, please leave me a nice review. This week, well, we're just three weeks into the Trump administration.

And are we already in a constitutional crisis? That certainly seems to be the view of some of the

more alarmist commentators around. Many of President Donald Trump's early actions on multiple fronts have been challenged in the courts.

And in a number of cases, judges have already blocked the administration from executing its plans.

A number of cases on birthright citizenship for the children of migrants, on the invitations to federal employees to quit their jobs,

on stopping the movement of trans women to men's prisons, dismantling the

US Agency for International Development USAID. Perhaps most dramatically, a judge has ruled that

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team is ruled that they be denied access to

the Treasury Department's payment and data systems, obviously seen as critical

for their ability to do their job.

Now, Trump officials have pushed back, most notably Vice President J.D. Vance, who posted

on X last week a note that read, judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate

power. So is this a full-blown constitutional crisis or just part of the now

pretty normal process of presidents testing the bounds of their legal authority? Well, to answer

all these questions, I'm pleased to say this week I'm joined by John Yu. Welcoming him back to the

program, John served in the George W. Bush administration in the Department of Justice's Office

of Legal Counsel, where he played an important, to some people, controversial role in the development of

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