NY Times -There is this question, which, to Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional scholar and dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, is central to the survival of the nation’s democratic experiment: If Trump defies the courts, as he and Vice President JD Vance have suggested they could do, what then?
It would be easy enough to do, as Chemerinsky writes in a new guest essay. The courts depend on the executive branch, now overseen by Trump, to enforce their orders.
Yet over the course of history, there have been no definitive instances of a president’s crossing that line. That is why, Chemerinsky says, “It is unsettling even to be asking whether the president would defy a court order.”
At least 100 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration during Trump’s return to power, during which he has likened himself to a “king” and asserted that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
Judges have issued over a dozen temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions against the Trump administration’s actions. At least two have complained that his administration ignored them. As Chemerinsky worries, we may soon see how far Trump will go to become king. Read the guest essay
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