#constitutional-crisis

#constitutional-crisis

In the normal course of history, the president of the United States is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, and political inevitability-the sense that he, and only he, can rescue the nation from looming peril. Since his second inauguration, Donald Trump has seized authoritarian control over the federal government and demanded the obedience of the other powerful institutions of American society-universities, law firms, media companies.

Many of them are people I have known to be cautious, sober, and not prone to hyperbole. Yet they used words like nightmare and warned that Americans need to be ready for 'really wild stuff.' They described a system under attack and reaching a breaking point. They enumerated a long list of concerns about next year's midterms, but they largely declined to make predictions about the 2028 presidential election.

Mongolian Prime Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar has stepped down after only four months as leader of the country, after receiving a crushing vote of no confidence from politicians, the country's parliament has announced. Mongolia's 126-seat national parliament, the State Great Khural, held the vote on Friday in which a reported 111 members of parliament cast their ballots, with 71 supporting Zandanshatar's dismissal and 40 opposing, according to a parliamentary statement.

Shortly after the first government shutdown since 2019 began earlier this month, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced that he was freezing $8 billion in infrastructure projects exclusively in states that voted for Kamala Harris. The projects that Vought consigned to funding purgatory included a multibillion-dollar renovation and expansion of the Hudson Tunnel from New Jersey to New York City and an extension of the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line.

He had also accused the assembly of colluding with Randrianirina to mount the military takeover. In a statement to the AFP news agency late on Wednesday, Rajoelina said he left the country between October 11 and 12 after explicit and extremely serious threats were made against the life of the Head of State. According to news reports, Rajoelina was evacuated on Sunday on board a French military plane. On Monday, Rajoelina said he had taken refuge in a safe place without giving further details.

Few expect Macron to return from Egypt with a solution to the deepening domestic political crisis he presides over, however. Fewer still have enough trust in a government so subservient to Macron that it can survive the forthcoming deliberations of the National Assembly. Because this is no conventional parliamentary crisis, but a crise de regime. Inspired by Charles de Gaulle's vision of executive pre-eminence vested in a quasi-monarchic presidential ascendancy,

Nepal's Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli stepped down on Tuesday following violent anti-government protests, plunging the poor Himalayan nation into fresh political turmoil. "In view of the adverse situation in the country, I have resigned effective today to facilitate the solution to the problem and to help resolve it politically in accordance with the constitution," Oli said in his resignation letter to President Ram Chandra Poudel.

Bar detailed a breakdown of his relationship with Netanyahu, citing demands for surveillance on anti-government protesters while indicating pressure not to testify in court.