The Courts vs. Trump

If you’re having trouble keeping up with the legal challenges to actions by the Trump Administration – you are not alone. At this moment, over 210 cases are pending. Nearly every action is being litigated, no matter the issues with jurisdiction or venue, and no matter how weak the case might be.

Of these cases, the Congressional Research Service identified 17 nationwide injunctions – “a universal remedy whereby a court enjoins a party with respect to all persons and entities, not just parties to the litigation” – issued against the Trump administration from January 20, 2025 through March 27, 2025. Seventeen nationwide injunctions before April 2025. Astonishing, really. And that number continues to grow.

Not that this hasn’t been an ongoing problem for Trump since his first term, which saw a total of 64 nationwide injunctions. For comparison, Bush, Obama, and Biden totaled 32.

Of course, judicial hostility to Trump isn’t just about nationwide injunctions. Rather, it has infected nearly every type of decision. As the 2024 election approached, Judge Tanya Chutkan – at the request of Special Counsel Jack Smith – ordered an expedited trial date to take place before the Presidential election, in violation of Trump’s Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. Trump and his team were only given months to prepare for a case that Special Counsel Smith estimated would take up to six weeks, and which required the review of over 11 million pages of documents, 8.5 terabytes of data, and the interviews of hundreds of witnesses. Or, there was Judge Emmett Sullivan, who ignored an order from the D.C. Circuit to dismiss the criminal case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, leaving then-President Trump no choice but to issue a pardon.