Around five dozen people showed up Monday for a local version of the National Day of Protest on President’s Day, held at Liberty Square in Mathews County.
The group in Mathews used the occasion primarily to share information about the impact that measures proposed by the current administration could have on local residents. In other places the event was primarily a protest against the actions of the Trump administration.
Constitutional crisis
Kent Willis spoke of a Constitutional crisis that “may be developing” in the U.S., in which President Trump has issued executive orders being challenged through the court system as unconstitutional. Willis said the orders have set up a question for the Supreme Court to answer about the intersection between the power of Congress and the power of the president.
A case expected to be heard this week could signal future decisions by the court, said Willis. In that case, Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, is challenging his termi...