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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n

— 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n

I listened this morning to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declare that he has no intention to of getting into a political battle with Donald John Trump over how to quell the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Good call, governor. I applaud the Democrat’s intent to take the high road, to concentrate on the health of his constituents, who have suffered mightily under the assault by the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n

However, I have trouble squaring Gov. Cuomo’s high-minded rhetoric with what he said earlier, which is that if Trump tries to exert presidential authority over the nation’s governors that we might have a “constitutional crisis on our hands.”<\/p>\n

Cuomo, who admits to jousting<\/a> with Trump when he’s felt it necessary — along with endorsing<\/em> him when he earns that, too — is trying to speak nobly. I fear that Trump’s impulses will drive him to don the brass knuckles and fight the president for all he’s worth.<\/p>\n

Trump continues his assault on the nation’s governors — the Democratic governors, I should add — over what he alleges is their delays and foot-dragging in the wake of the health crisis. He failed to respond proactively at the front<\/em> end of the crisis, saying that governors held the authority to act. Now that we might be approaching the back<\/em> end of the crisis, he wants to exert authority he doesn’t possess to put the nation back to work.<\/p>\n

Cuomo is concerned that Trump is more concerned about his re-election prospects than he is in the health and well-being of New Yorkers and other Americans.<\/p>\n

Given that Trump has no real constitutional power or authority to act, we are presented with a puzzling question: What precisely can Trump do to ignite the constitutional crisis that governors such as Andrew Cuomo say would result? Cuomo said governors could resist a federal edict to reopen the government and then we would have a constitutional likes of which “we haven’t seen in decades.”<\/p>\n

OK. I applaud Gov. Cuomo’s stated intent to refuse to “engage” Trump in an open dispute. However, the absence of impulse control within Donald Trump — along with his ignorance — might force the nation’s governors to fight back \u2026 with all due vigor.<\/p>\n\n

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