Who Can Actually Stop Donald Trump? The Constitutional Reality No One Wants to Face

In this episode of The Rule of Law Brief, I answer a direct question from a follower: Who can stop Donald Trump at this point? The honest answer is uncomfortable—and it exposes the structural vulnerabilities in our constitutional system.

I walk through the basic checks and balances the Framers designed: judicial review, the power of the purse, and impeachment. Then we examine how each of those mechanisms has broken down—largely because they depend on voluntary compliance and political courage that simply aren’t present today.

We look at Trump’s rejection of judicial authority, Congress’s collapse on the budget standoff, and the modern degeneration of impeachment into political performance art. We also discuss Caroline Leavitt’s recent remark that Trump “will be impeached” if Republicans lose the midterms—a line that accidentally reveals an important truth about the system’s fragility.

Ultimately, the answer isn’t the courts, and it isn’t Congress. The only people who can stop a lawless president are the voters—up and down the ballot, at both the federal and state levels. Because the Constitution is only as strong as the people entrusted to enforce it.

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