What a Constitutional Crisis Looks Like

Steve Russell
8 min readJan 12, 2020
Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial. Drawing by Theodore Russel Davis public domain by age.

The system of checks and balances we have inherited is in danger.

(Author’s Note: The writers intended to compose anonymously under the nom de plume “Publius” in The Federalist Papers. I give the scholarly consensus of the identity of each writer. The actual fact is beyond my ken.)

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)