Trump’s 'showdowns' with the judiciary are 'only going to get more intense' — here's why

President Donald Trump's economic agenda suffered a setback when, on Wednesday, May 28, the U.S. Court of International Trade blocked most of the tariffs Trump is imposing on the United States' trading partners. The following day, however, a federal appeals court disagreed with that ruling and reinstated the tariffs — at least for the time being.

Trump's allies were quick to rail against the May 28 decision, once again accusing federal judges of failing to respect Trump's executive powers. And the president's critics are responding that the federal courts are not out of line, but rather, are doing what they're supposed to do under the United States' system of checks and balances.

In an article published on May 31, Axios' Sam Baker emphasizes that Trump's "inevitable showdowns" with "the judiciary are only going to get more intense."

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"No modern president has done more in his first 130 days than President Trump — only to have much of it undone, at least temporarily, by the courts," Baker reports. "The big picture: Trump is testing the limits of presidential power at every turn, and the courts are just about the only thing standing in his way…. Judges have issued dozens of orders blocking Trump from doing something he wants to do, and the flood seems to grow every day. The headlines are constant: Judge blocks X, Judge freezes Y, Court allows Z to continue."

Baker continues, "This week's ruling against Trump's tariffs — handed down by the usually sleepy Court of International Trade — was one of the biggest shockwaves yet, striking at the centerpiece of his economic agenda and efforts to exert leverage on the world stage. That ruling was quickly put on ice, temporarily, by an appeals court. But there will be more tariff litigation, and more litigation on just about everything else."

Trump, the Axios reporter notes, is fighting with the federal courts on everything from deportations to mass layoffs of federal government workers.

"To some extent, this is the system working the same way it always works," Baker explains. "The big things presidents do, at least in the modern era, end up in court. Obamacare was a big thing, done by both the president and Congress. It's been before the Supreme Court no less than three times.

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Baker adds, "Forgiving student loans and trying to impose COVID vaccine mandates were, for better or worse, big things President (Joe) Biden attempted. The Supreme Court said both were too big. Trump has made no bones about wanting to go as big as possible, all the time, on everything."

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Read the full Axios article at this link.