Can courts save American democracy? So, I mean, I would argue that the lower courts have been really pretty stalwart. I think the Supreme Court has been far less effective. Whatever its frustration with the emergency docket, until the decision about the National Guard in Chicago, Trump, the administration had an almost unbroken string of victories on the emergency docket. So we’ve seen the Supreme Court exceed in a number of domains.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2026 00:02 UTC