The president's executive orders have already drawn dozens of legal challenges, including some that could make it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Maya Sen argues that federal courts are unlikely to protect democracy from threats posed by Trump and Musk, as the judiciary’s power to check executive overreach is limited and increasingly challenged. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

The cases, brought by nonprofits, state attorneys general, civil rights groups and private citizens, challenge Trump’s directives to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding, shrink the federal workforce,