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Can the Courts Save American Democracy?
Emily Bazelon, a lawyer and author, thinks the courts have pushed again in opposition to Trump in necessary methods. However in the end, as she explains on “The Opinions,” they’ll’t cease the broader growth of presidential energy on their very own.
Can courts save American democracy? What’s their precise position right here? I feel what we’re seeing is they’ll’t do it on their very own. So, I imply, I might argue that the decrease courts have been actually fairly stalwart. I feel the Supreme Courtroom has been far much less efficient. No matter its frustration with the emergency docket, till the choice concerning the Nationwide Guard in Chicago, Trump, the administration had an nearly unbroken string of victories on the emergency docket. So we’ve seen the Supreme Courtroom exceed in quite a lot of domains. And sure, they in all probability are going to push again in a number of the most excessive instances, however we’re nonetheless going to finish up with expanded presidential energy for this explicit president.
January 24, 2026

