Growing judicial voices challenge Trump’s erosion of constitutional norms

Cătălin Roșioru

CNN  —  Federal judges hearing Trump administration litigation have increasingly gone beyond the case at hand to reflect on potential threats to democracy or offer dramatic assertions about the state of America. Democratic and Republican appointees alike, these judges are giving voice to a simmering concern in judicial circles about the erosion of constitutional norms during the first weeks of the second Trump administration. But in doing so, they are breaking with a culture of judicial