Six questions seem central to the legal crisis that has followed Donald Trump's return to the White House in 2025.
- How are personnel changes inside the Department of Justice altering the institutional balance around federal judges, and what happens when opposing forces are weakened?
- How have Trump's Supreme Court appointments, including the appointment completed in 2020, changed the Court?
- Where do White House executive orders come into potential conflict with the Constitution, and which cases make that conflict clearest?
- What does the alliance between American right-wing populism and the Trump administration do to the rule of law and to the legal system itself?
- Where is the opposition?
- Can America's claim to be a beacon of the rule of law survive, or is that beacon beginning to fall?