Dems and their media have been shouting about a “constitutional crisis” for two weeks now. If you believe Rep. Jared Huffman, it’s even the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War.

But the actual constitutional crisis is once again proving to be a judicial coup.

Democrat federal judges have blocked lawful moves by the Trump administration under various technical pretexts with the aim of upending legal presidential authority. We’ve already seen this during Trump’s first term, so it comes as no real surprise, but it’s even more aggressive out of the gate with leftist activists and leftist federal judges moving rapidly to try and block nearly anything that the Trump administration does.

This isn’t just limited to broader national policies, like NIH funding caps, but the management of the federal government, including removing political appointees and reassigning federal employees and ending relationships with contractors.

All of these are under the purview of the executive branch until federal judges decided to step in.

Whatever one conceives of the role of the federal judiciary, it is not wielding executive authority. And that is what federal judges are effectively doing by vetoing a broad range of publicly supported policies on the thinnest of pretexts.

There is no way to make meaningful reforms without challenging judicial review or more properly judicial supremacism, but nonetheless it’s clear that the crisis is approaching sooner than anyone expected.

The judicial coup returns us to the fundamental question of who runs the government: elected or unelected officials, by way of the question of what powers the judiciary has and what powers it does not have.