Has the constitutional order failed? Experts suggest U.S. is witnessing institutional collapse at New York state bar summit amNewYork

"Constitutional experts made the case that the United States has left a phase of mere constitutional crisis for one of failure at the presidential summit of the New York State Bar Association's 2026 annual meeting. Historian Jack Rakove and former Jan. 6 prosecutor Sonia Mittal said Wednesday that it's important for the legal community to grapple with the idea that our system of justice has shifted from a temporary inflection point under President Donald Trump to a more systemic collapse of its institutions."

""We hold up the United States Constitution as a paradigm example of a constitution that endures. And we are officers and stewards of that Constitution, Mittal said. But if we are unwilling as a community to even broach that language if that language is so uncomfortable to us that we have difficulty thinking about it it means that we're going to be unequipped to have the freedom of mind to respond.""

The United States has moved from a phase of constitutional crisis into systemic constitutional failure, with breakdowns apparent across the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The government's response to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed failures in institutional duty, including the Senate's handling of the second impeachment trial and the inability of impeachment mechanisms to meet constitutional thresholds. The legal community faces a pressing need to confront uncomfortable realities about constitutional stewardship and to preserve the freedom of mind necessary to mount effective responses to institutional erosion.

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