The constitutional crisis was Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio's contempt of court. If the president can pardon contempt, then the president has the power to exemp

The constitutional crisis was Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio's contempt of court. If the president can pardon contempt, then the president has the power to exempt a person from the obligation to show up in court, admit guilt, or experience consequences for their crime. That was the moment of structural executive supremacy and an actual constitutional crisis -- when the law contradicts itself calling the laws themselves into question.