President Trump’s tug-of-war with the courts, explained

Judges Play Their Trump Card Against President — And SCOTUS, Too

These judges aren’t just flouting President Donald Trump’s orders. They’re staking out the authority to govern from the bench.

President Trump’s tug-of-war with the courts, explained

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Stefani Reynolds/BloombergThe Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a big win on June 27, 2025, by limiting the ability of judges to block Trump administration policies across the nation. But Trump has not fared nearly as well in the lower courts, where he has lost a series of cases through different levels of the federal court system. On June 5, a single judge temporarily stopped the administrati…