staciberger

In February 2025, just weeks into the second Trump presidency I was asked if our nation was in a constitutional crisis. As I watched this administration eviscerate constitutional norms, openly question the legitimacy of our courts, deploy criminal authorities to attack political opponents, outsource our government to billionaire cronies, utterly disregard the rule of law, and engage in unprecedented self-dealing, the only answer I could muster was “yes.” But I also knew and said then what I still believe now: that as important as our lawsuits were, this crisis would not be up to the court of law alone. The American people, the jurors in the court of public opinion, had to save us. And I had faith that they would. I believe wholeheartedly that for all the darkness of the past two years, the American people have saved us. They saved us by showing up with whistles in subzero temperatures on the streets in Minneapolis; they saved us in the largest protests in American history; they saved us by serving as courageous plaintiffs in landmark lawsuits; they saved us with megaphones outside detention centers and in quiet moments of defiance in far flung corners across this county. And tomorrow, they’ll get one more chance to save us by performing the most American of protests. They get to vote. And I believe that when the votes are tallied — and they will be — that the message will be clear: the American people do not stand with this Administration and its lawlessness and corruption. And in doing so they will prove that the cynical bet President Trump and the sycophants surrounding him have made — that they could brazenly undermine the rule of law and no one would care — was wrong. And they will reaffirm the fundamental principle of this nation: that the voices of the American people, collectively, are still more powerful than whoever occupies the highest office in our land.