Dozens of lawsuits have been filed to block Trump’s executive orders, and he has lost virtually every case thus far. Courts have enjoined his freezing of funds, enjoined his efforts to shut down USAID, enjoined his efforts to buy off government officials by paying them till September to do nothing, enjoined his orders barring transgender women from being put in women’s prisons for their safety, enjoined his effort to overturn birthright citizenship. Basically, the courts are doing their job—thus far. But what if he defies them? Or what if the Supreme Court reverses all the lower court actions? We asked David Cole, who recently stepped down as National Legal Director of the ACLU to return to teaching law at Georgetown. He writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books, and he’s legal affairs correspondent for The Nation.
This interview has been edited and condensed—you can read the full transcript here.
—Jon Wiener
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