A Trump Empire? Six Questions About America's Legal Order
- Bloggerary
- 4 hours ago
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Six questions seem central to the legal crisis that has followed Donald Trump's return to the White House in 2025.
How are personnel changes inside the Department of Justice altering the institutional balance around federal judges, and what happens when opposing forces are weakened?
How have Trump's Supreme Court appointments, including the appointment completed in 2020, changed the Court?
Where do White House executive orders come into potential conflict with the Constitution, and which cases make that conflict clearest?
What does the alliance between American right-wing populism and the Trump administration do to the rule of law and to the legal system itself?
Where is the opposition?
Can America's claim to be a beacon of the rule of law survive, or is that beacon beginning to fall?
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