Yes, we're headed towards a Constitutional Crises. Dark daze ahead, you can book it.

A Constitutional Crises is a threat to the rule of law that the Constitution itself does not provide a solution for under present political circumstances.

The president is getting rid of staunch right-wing ideologues because they will not allow him to prevent the rule of law to applying to him and his family. That’s what the laying the groundwork to fire Jeff Sessions is about. That’s what the firing of Don McGahn is about. The inability to state this obvious fact by the press is a symptom of a larger problem; since there’s no solution to the president’s push to make himself invulnerable to the law, the media prefers not to say what is so obviously happening.

We've yet to learn the sequence of how it will unfold, but the president is apparently intent on pardoning Manafort (which has no real justification outside of obstructing justice) and either ending Robert Mueller’s investigation or putting it under the control of a loyalist who will dismantle and whitewash it.

This is happening right before our eyes. There’s no clear path on how any of this can be prevented. The only partial path, which is political, is if the House of Representatives moves to Democratic control in January. The issue isn’t impeachment even though Trump’s erratic behavior alone would have warranted his removal from office long ago. The key is oversight and investigation; of the countless threads of post-2016 corruption but particularly the Russia investigation.

Everything we’ve seen about the Mueller probe suggests that he is conducting exactly the kind of professional, highly confidential investigation anyone should want. But this is not just about punishing people who have committed crimes who should be punished. The ultimate goal should be that the country should know what happened, whatever it is that happened. That is something that congressional investigations can do and Special Counsels can only do to a very limited extent. Ideally the two bodies coordinate and work with one another, allowing each to fulfill their critical role without undermining the other.

If we look at the totality of the Special Counsel’s investigation it seems very likely that there are things the investigators know about Manafort’s activities that can never be made public in a courtroom. Even if they were admissible it would involve jeopardizing intelligence sources. The most plausible explanation for why this mountain of charges have been brought against Manafort is they want him to admit what they know to be true based on highly classified information that cannot be presented in a courtroom. That is why the president is so intent on pardoning him.

Trump appears to know he cannot let the Special Counsel’s investigation continue, not in its present form, not without risking his presidency, his wealth and perhaps his freedom. For now, there’s no reason to think anyone will stop him. Months of relentless pressure and bullying by the president have made Republicans more accommodating instead of less in helping him to do so. The check can only be a Democratic congress which can not only investigate but conduct a largely public investigation.

It doesn't really matter where on the political spectrum you fall, we're in for some very dark days ahead. This is practically a given.