{"id":70787,"date":"2026-04-03T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/courts-keep-ruling-against-trump-but-they-cant-save-our-democracy-singlehandedly-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:59:53","slug":"courts-keep-ruling-against-trump-but-they-cant-save-our-democracy-singlehandedly-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/courts-keep-ruling-against-trump-but-they-cant-save-our-democracy-singlehandedly-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can\u2019t save our democracy singlehandedly | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decisions on the White House ballroom, public media and journalists\u2019 access to the Pentagon are heartening. But restoring our institutions is up to us<\/p>\n<p>In 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 \u2013 to varying degrees \u2013 respected the separation of power among the three branches of US government.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has not shown himself to share in that basic principle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/03\/trump-courts-media-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decisions on the White House ballroom, public media and journalists\u2019 access to the Pentagon are heartening. But restoring our institutions is up to us In 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can\u2019t save our democracy singlehandedly | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/courts-keep-ruling-against-trump-but-they-cant-save-our-democracy-singlehandedly-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can\u2019t save our democracy singlehandedly | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}