A series of recent adverse court rulings have provided major impediments to some of President Donald Trump’s policies and executive actions, underscoring the federal judiciary’s increasingly lonely role in serving as a pause on the president’s effort to dramatically reshape the country.

The courts have long been a key battleground for Trump’s foes, and a flurry of litigation earlier this year jammed up some of his second term agenda as judges scrutinized – often on a fast-moving, emergency basis – cases brought over everything from his dismantling of federal agencies to his targeting of elite law firms.

The president has scored some victories in those lawsuits, thanks in part to favorable rulings from the conservative-majority Supreme Court. But many of them are still working their way

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