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🌎 How Democracies Fight Back, Part Two: What a Court's "No" Is Actually Worth Under Trump

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By Alexander Verbeek Verified
| The Planet
We're continuing How Democracies Fight Back, the new series for The Planet that follows The Strongman's Playbook. I published Part 1 last week, opening with institutional resistance: the D.C. Circuit blocking the White House ballroom against Todd Blanche’s Justice Department, with lessons drawn from Poland's Constitutional Tribunal and Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal. Today, I finalized Part 2, on legal resistance, judges, lawyers, and bar associations pushing back against executive overreach.
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How Democracies Fight Back, Part One: What Institutional Resistance Looks Like Under Trump

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By Alexander Verbeek Verified
| The Planet
On August 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 that the Trump administration could not continue above-ground construction of the White House ballroom without congressional authorization. A week later, on August 14, Trump asked the Supreme Court to let him resume construction. The project is officially priced at $400 million for a 90,000-square-foot East Wing complex, though the broader cost of Trump’s White House renovations keeps moving.
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How Trump's America Is Engineering a System That Cannot Lose

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By Alexander Verbeek Verified
| The Planet
On January 15, 2026, Reuters sat down with President Trump for a wide-ranging interview. The conversation turned to the midterm elections scheduled for November. Trump complained about the historical pattern of the president’s party losing seats at midterms. He talked about his administration’s accomplishments. Then he said: “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.” The White House subsequently called the remark facetious.
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