Constitutional Crisis

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once stated that what makes the United States such a free country is not the Bill of Rights, but the separation of powers and checks and balances. Since the founding of our nation, there has been an ongoing struggle to balance the powers of the three branches of government, with each branch testing the boundaries of its authority. The check on their power comes when another branch asserts that they have overstepped their bounds. This dynamic has shaped the functioning of our government for nearly 250 years. The term "constitutional crisis" has been used throughout U.S. history, but there have been very few true constitutional crises. Are we truly in a constitutional crisis at this time, as the media and Democrats claim? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #286.