Thank you for the constitutional clarity, even though it had nothing to do with the point I was making.
It has everything to do with your point; you were saying that the whole thing is based on feeling (that is, of the official[s] concerned; whether or not they feel like it's legitimate). That is, if they thought the politicos would not support them, they would not have done it.
All this crap/lawlessness is going on precisely because those in authority refuse to do justice: whether because they've seared their own conscience so they cannot tell good from evil, to whether they simply think "It's not worth the effort", to those who are afraid of losing their status for going against the stance[s] mandated for politicos to hold, to whether they are so arrogant as to believe themselves unbound by the Law (Constitution).