The White House sees few, if any, limits on President Trump’s executive powers in his second term, but the federal court system is much less sure. Trump’s mass firings and ...

Dismantle the Education Department? On it. Slash the federal bureaucracy? Done. The 47th president is checking off conservatives' impossible dreams.

Federal judges have lifetime tenure, and foreign leaders answer to their own citizenry. For now, they’re acting as the emergency brakes on Trump as he pushes to remake the world.