What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

As the Trump administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to deploying the most powerful tool they have: contempt of court.

Lawless acts - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

JUST UNDER a year ago, on July 1, 2024, the US Supreme Court granted American presidents immunity from prosecution. Back then, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson – one of just three dissenting justices – warned the majority was empowering “all future presidents to cross the line of criminality.” But not even she might have anticipated Donald Trump’s second term. We are long past “the line of criminality.” The rule of law appears to be under threat. O…