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Trump’s “Muslim ban” could provoke a constitutional crisis: Will the executive branch ignore the courts?

“Unprecedented.” It’s a word that gets tossed around a lot lately, with regard to Donald Trump. This time, however, it’s justified. Behind all the chaos, confusion, and international consternation of Trump’s thinly-veiled Muslim immigration and travel ban there’s a clear-cut constitutional crisis brewing, as argued on Twitter by Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin.