Checks and balances in the second Trump Administration. A stress test or a constitutional crisis?

This paper was spurred by the flurry of executive orders that began on 20 January 2025 a few hours after Trump’s inauguration and has yet to stop, and by an apparent dereliction of duties of Congress. The scope of the research was to confront and compare the first days, weeks and months of the second Trump term with past administrations that had indeed stressed the constitutional balance of powers to detect the signs, if any, of a new stressful period or rather to identify eventual warnings of a constitutional crisis. Reported here are some of the early findings while the research is a work in progress.