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Hey there, from CNN. I'm Krista Bow with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, February 12th.

Recent court rulings have slowed or blocked some of President Donald Trump's executive actions.

So the question a lot of people are asking is, will the Trump administration just ignore the courts?

So yesterday he said he wouldn't.

But speculation about Trump ignoring court orders ramped up this week when a judge in Rhode Island

ruled, again, that the administration couldn't cut off grant and loan payments to certain states

after Democratic-led states complained that the administration wasn't obeying the judge's first

court order.

And Trump and his Vice President J.D. Vance believed the courts don't have the power to block

the president's agenda, posing a constitutional question about checks and balances.

So what if Trump were to defy a court order on purpose?

What could judges do?

CNN's John Fritzy explains.

So, Krista, just like in the movies, courts can hold parties in contempt. That could mean

fines or even criminal charges, but there's a big catch, and that is that many of those steps

require buy-in from the Justice Department, which, of course, in this case, is controlled by Donald

Trump himself. Now, we should stress that at this point, this is all just talk. Trump is kicking

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