How Trump's clash with the courts is brewing into an 'all-out war'
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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USA TODAY White House Reporter Zac Anderson takes a look at President Donald Trump's clash with judges.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, May 27, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:14.3 | Today, how Trump has leaned into his clash with the courts, plus a return of a unique sort of funeral to Arlington National Cemetery, as we |
| 0:21.8 | remember the fallen this week. And we take a closer look at a move that delays a key pollution |
| 0:26.3 | rule for dozens of coal power plants. President Donald Trump and his allies have led an intense |
| 0:33.3 | pressure campaign on the judiciary. I spoke with USA today. White House reporter, Zach Anderson, |
| 0:38.5 | about his clash with the courts. Thanks as always for joining me, Zach. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:43.9 | So just starting here, Zach, what are some of the ways we've seen Trump go after the judiciary in |
| 0:48.2 | recent months? I know we could talk for an hour about some of these things, but just give us a quick |
| 0:51.7 | summary. He's really led a pretty aggressive pressure campaign on the judiciary, responding to a number of legal setbacks that have been lobbed against him by different judges. |
| 1:05.3 | He's called for impeaching a judge. |
| 1:09.5 | There's been a push by Trump's allies to defund the judiciary. There's been |
| 1:16.3 | legislation to try and stop the process of nationwide injunctions that some judges have used |
| 1:23.3 | to block some of Trump's legal efforts. It's really been an all-out press here. |
| 1:28.5 | Well, and conservative activists and some lawmakers are also pushing Trump in this direction, |
| 1:33.0 | right, Zach? I mean, how is that playing out? Yeah, you're seeing a huge support for the president |
| 1:39.0 | from some of his conservative allies. There's a group called the Article III project |
| 1:43.0 | that has been coordinating phone calls, emails, social media messages to members of Congress. There's various |
| 1:50.1 | right-wing personalities online who have been pushing this. There's an individual who goes by |
| 1:57.3 | D.C. Drano. His actual name is Rogan O'Hanley. And he has really helped popularize the idea |
| 2:04.7 | of suspending habeas corpus, the due process rights in the Constitution. You've seen Steve Bannon |
| 2:11.0 | with his war room podcast really promote this. So a lot of pressure from right-wing activists for Trump to rein in the judiciary |
| 2:20.9 | and push back on some of these legal rulings. Zach, we've heard this term constitutional crisis |
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