Presidential Power and Judicial Challenges

The Washington Roundtable speaks with with Michael Waldman, the president and C.E.O. of the Brennan Center for Justice, at N.Y.U. Law, to discuss the escalating attacks on the judiciary by  President Trump and his allies. If the Administration ignores a legitimate order from a federal judge, as it has come close to doing, what can the courts do in response? 

This week’s reading:

• “Donald Trump, Producer-in-Chief,” by Susan B. Glasser
• “Why ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Fails to Capture Trump’s Attack on the Rule of Law,” by Isaac Chotiner
• “The Trump Administration Nears Open Defiance of the Courts,” by Ruth Marcus

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