I suspect you are right but if so it won't make much difference, I fear. Those controlling the federal government control a multi-trillion dollar enterprise armed to the teeth which controls the richest piece of real estate on the planet. They are not about to give that up over such piddling little details as "Constitutional legitimacy".
Probably in the end, a really serious challenge to their power would result in some sort massive crackdown or bloodletting by them and their surrogates - or might even result in outright civil war. That is, I think, one main reason why so many in the timid GOP and the courts seem so feckless and fearful about challenging the entrenched Liberal establishment.
These are tyrants at heart and tyrants mean business. They are usually more than willing to drop the velvet gloves and release the hounds of hell to stay in power. In the meantime, plain old intimidation and bribery of every sort has worked wonders keeping them at the reins of power in this country for years. Hopefully, that will end soon and this might be just the crack in the dam that starts their collapse.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here but.....this comes back to the same problem. It's not going away. They won't be taken out later either.
It's not going to get any better only worse. Like those who think we can avoid a constitutional crisis....WE ARE ALREADY in a constitutional crisis.
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! -of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.” Winston S. Churchill