Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can’t save our democracy singlehandedly | Margaret Sullivan
Apr 03, 2026
Decisions on the White House ballroom, public media and journalists’ access to the Pentagon are heartening. But restoring our institutions is up to usIn another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court the
other day. No other presidents have done so, probably because they – to varying degrees – respected the separation of power among the three branches of US government.But Trump has not shown himself to share in that basic principle. Continue reading... ...read more read less