Such an action could lead to a constitutional confrontation over a reporter's privilege to refuse to disclose sources for a news article or broadcast.

The move raises the possibility of an eventual constitutional confrontation.

These 'occasions for constitutional confrontation between the two branches' are likely to be avoided whenever possible.

The constitutional confrontation is doing nothing to help with that effort.

The often angry debate centered on a classic constitutional confrontation.

She said the dispute was a constitutional confrontation, not a gambit of power politics.

No constitutional confrontation arose because Congress kept appropriating the money to fight the war.

"I don't see this as any great constitutional confrontation."

Many people are urging the two sides to put aside the constitutional confrontation and settle their fiscal dispute.

Kuwait is a small country, and we have had this constitutional confrontation for a long time with the ruling family.