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Rocky may collapse and Gibraltar has fallen. But if Donald Trump obey the courts, the United States will stand. The American system is designed to accommodate almost anything except for a return to realistic ownership. Whether the American president wants to make the judiciary unrelated is the key to the fate of the Republic. Is Trump about to conduct this small experience?

To some extent, it is already. Last month, an American court suspended the freezing of Trump’s blanket of federal spending. Trump has only partially complied. On its first day, all of them tore a ruling from the Supreme Court of the previous week that supports the Congress ban on Tijoc. JD Vance Vice President and Empire ELON Musk publicly asked about the courts of the courts. Musk even called for isolating the judge who deprived the dependencies of reaching the federal payment system.

Such threats may be overlooked without inevitably. The highest sound must be obtained. Although Trump was in office for more than three weeks, he has not yet sent an objective bill to Congress. Some observers compared the Trump wave at the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt, or the Great Agenda of the Lindon Johnson community. They miss this point. FDR and LBJ send large legislation to Congress. Trump begins a tubes of executive orders. If the courts install it, it will block its agenda. Its strategy is based on a great judicial authority.

There are two ways to implement Trump what legal scientists call Pop Power and Jack Goldsmith “extreme constitutional”. The first is to intimidate the courts in contentment. If the judges believe that Trump is ready to contact the judicial deception, it will be in their interest to pretend that he is only acting because they allowed him to do so. Instead of Trump obey the courts, they will politely come out through him. This way, at least they maintained the imagination of being an independent branch of the government. The other option is for Trump to dare to dare the courts to enforce its hostile rulings. Both Vans and Musk pay the time to the judges. He is also Russell Fion, the next Trump president of the management and budget office, and the author of the famous project 2025.

It is a just bet that Trump prefers to disarm the judiciary. But he is also ready to play Russian roulette. He believes that American voters gave him an uninterrupted mandate. It follows that any interference in its practice of power-including the belief, is similar to that of the US constitution, which means what it chooses-rises to a bloc on democracy. Can 30,000 illegal immigrants be placed outside the legal arrival in the glorious Bay of Guantenamo? naturally. The American people spoke. Can any of the creditors in America choose to pay it and which they announce fraud? maybe. Trump, not the judges, will be the decision.

Until recently, Trumpon was keen to remind critics that the United States was founded as a republic, not as a democracy. This line has turned 180 degrees. The new is that the anti -republican furniture hinders the democratic state of Trump. Republican -dominated Congress removed itself from Trump’s path. The non -elected judges are the problem. Ultimately among these nine judges in the US Supreme Court. It is in their inbox as these dilemmas. At stake is the reason for their existence.

Roman roosters oppose Thanksgiving Day. However, last July, the US Supreme Court granted the US president to sweep immunity from almost any “official” actions. It is only a little imagination to conclude that this can extend to ignore the courts. The six judges who have put their names on this ruling may now regret the formulation of loose. They could have liberated themselves in an advisory body. The problem of the court is that Trump has a strong wind on his back. Constitutional lawyers warn that it can destroy America’s separation of the authorities. But Trump’s 53 percent rating for CBS-Yojov last week is its highest level ever.

In addition to their deep survey classifications, Democrats are slow to collect their business together. For known reasons, Joe Biden boasted last year by continuing to forgive students’ debts even after the Supreme Court ruled against her. Biden and Barack Obama resorted to executive orders to circumvent the Gidlock. The difference is that Trump can pay most of what he wants through Congress. He did not bother to try himself as an advantage in his rule, not a mistake.

Edward.luce@ft.com