{"id":70961,"date":"2026-04-06T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/us-lower-court-judges-are-challenging-trumps-war-on-the-rule-of-law-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:56:40","slug":"us-lower-court-judges-are-challenging-trumps-war-on-the-rule-of-law-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/us-lower-court-judges-are-challenging-trumps-war-on-the-rule-of-law-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US lower court judges are challenging Trump\u2019s \u2018war on the rule of law\u2019, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impact of rulings by these judges has been sizable, slowing or halting some of the president\u2019s most extreme policies<\/p>\n<p>District court judges nationwide have been increasingly issuing strong rulings challenging the legality of many of Donald Trump\u2019s policies and executive power grabs, blocking key ones at least temporarily, and sparking angry responses from the president, former judges and prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of Trump\u2019s second term, lower court federal judges have written sharply critical opinions about his legally dubious policies on immigration, tariffs, Department of Justice (DoJ) prosecutions of political foes and more.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/trump-lower-court-judges-challenges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact of rulings by these judges has been sizable, slowing or halting some of the president\u2019s most extreme policies District court judges nationwide have been increasingly issuing strong rulings challenging the legality of many of Donald Trump\u2019s policies and executive power grabs, blocking key ones at least temporarily, and sparking angry responses from the president, &#8230; <a title=\"US lower court judges are challenging Trump\u2019s \u2018war on the rule of law\u2019, experts say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/us-lower-court-judges-are-challenging-trumps-war-on-the-rule-of-law-experts-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US lower court judges are challenging Trump\u2019s \u2018war on the rule of law\u2019, experts say\">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-70961","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\/70961","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=70961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}