"And no surprise, judges in those countries have repeatedly done what Orban and Erdogan want. Donald Trump has not had the opportunity to pack the US supreme court to nearly the same degree. Nor has he, despite his brash, bullying ways, done much to pressure or browbeat the court's nine justices. Nevertheless, the court's conservative supermajority has ruled time after time in favor of Trump since he returned to office."
"Notwithstanding the US's celebrated system of checks and balances, the justices have utterly failed to provide the checks on Trump that many legal scholars had expected. In ruling for Trump, the chief justice, John Roberts, and the other conservatives have let him gut the Department of Education, fire Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board members, and strip temporary protected status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants."
Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over 15 years packing courts with loyalists and pressuring judges, producing predictable rulings. Donald Trump has not similarly remade the US Supreme Court, yet the Court's conservative supermajority has repeatedly ruled in his favor since his return to office. Six conservative justices have aligned with Trump despite life tenure intended to insulate them. Those rulings have enabled Trump to weaken federal agencies, remove regulatory and labor board members, strip temporary protected status from immigrants, halt billions in aid, fire federal employees, and expand executive control over congressional spending.
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