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Sam Levine in New York

Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law

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Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on 17 March 2025. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s second administration has shown an “unprecedented degree of resistance” to adverse court rulings, experts say, part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary that threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy.

The attacks, experts say, threaten one of the fundamental pillars of American government: that the judicial branch has the power to interpret the law and the other branches will abide by its rulings.

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