Bon­di Says The Real ‘Con­sti­tu­tion­al Cri­sis’ Is Judi­cial Law­fare, Not Trump Exec Actions

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On Sun­day, Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bon­di reject­ed claims that Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is caus­ing a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis with his sec­ond-term exec­u­tive actions, which are fac­ing numer­ous legal chal­lenges.

“The pres­i­dent is going to com­ply with the law,” Bon­di told Fox News Sun­day anchor Shan­non Bream, who asked if there was any “sce­nario” in which Trump would not com­ply with an order or final judg­ment from the Supreme Court.

“Since Jan­u­ary 20th, we’ve had over 170 law­suits filed against us. That should be the con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis right there,” Bon­di stat­ed. “Fifty injunc­tions, they’re pop­ping up every sin­gle day, try­ing to con­trol his exec­u­tive pow­er, try­ing to con­trol where he believes our tax dol­lars should be allo­cat­ed.”

The inter­view began with a clip of Jef­frey Rosen, pres­i­dent and CEO of the Nation­al Con­sti­tu­tion Cen­ter, sug­gest­ing that a pres­i­dent clash­ing with the Supreme Court could trig­ger a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis. Bream point­ed out that some crit­ics fre­quent­ly use that phrase amid the surge of law­suits against the Trump admin­is­tra­tion.

Bon­di high­light­ed Trump’s 2024 elec­tion vic­to­ry and his efforts to ful­fill promis­es made on the cam­paign trail.

“He’s imple­ment­ing that agen­da at a rapid speed. None of us can keep up with him every sin­gle day,” she said. “And so it’s just we’re going after all of these law­suits. We’re defend­ing them all. We just got a great win. And we’ll con­tin­ue to fight every day.”

Bon­di was allud­ing to a recent Supreme Court deci­sion that, by a 5–4 vote, per­mit­ted Trump to tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend about $65 mil­lion in teacher train­ing grants linked to diver­si­ty, equi­ty, and inclu­sion (DEI) ini­tia­tives.

“You did. Fri­day night, 5–4 at the Supreme Court. You got a win with respect to cuts at the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion,” Bream respond­ed.

“But the court did go against you on issues of for­eign aid being paid out,” she added, refer­ring to a dif­fer­ent case. “How do you think these issues of exec­u­tive pow­er, when they get to the court, ulti­mate­ly on the mer­its, will go? Because you know the court has told exec­u­tives no when it comes to things like stu­dent loans or recess appoint­ments.”

Bon­di expressed opti­mism, stat­ing, “We’re going to be very suc­cess­ful on all of these,” despite the relent­less legal bat­tles.

“To give you an exam­ple of a case, Depart­ment of Defense. So we had its mil­i­tary readi­ness. And that’s one of the president’s top agen­das as is [Defense Sec­re­tary] Pete Hegseth,” she said. “So in the dis­trict court, a dis­trict court in D.C. ruled against us on mil­i­tary readi­ness, mean­ing gen­der dys­pho­ria, ruled against us. We appealed that to the cir­cuit court and we won. The sec­ond we won, with­in min­utes, Shan­non, in Cal­i­for­nia, they filed an iden­ti­cal law­suit and we lost. So that’s what we’re up against.”

Bon­di con­tin­ued: “It’s basi­cal­ly a game of whack-a-mole with these dis­trict court judges around the coun­try who have a tremen­dous amount of pow­er. They believe they do. But that’s why we’re appeal­ing all of these cas­es, of course, up to the Supreme Court.”