In its first few weeks, the Trump admistration has waged a blitz on the federal government. But the campaign of massive, sudden spending freezes, widespread attacks on civil servants and the unprecedented vesture of power in Musk has not done well in court so far. 

Over and over, the Trump administration’s efforts have been hit with temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions from judges who, at least for now, have determined the White House is out of line.

Experts say they are troubled by the prospect of the administration appearing to build a precedent for ignoring court orders.

“Lots of the fights that they have picked—especially Musk’s out-of-control, rampant destruction of federal agencies from within—a lot of those fights they are not going to win in court,” says Thomas Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. “So either they’re delusional about what judges will approve, or I think they have been planning from the beginning to try to get away with ignoring court decisions that go against them.”

Read more in the HuffPost article, “ Team Trump Threatens to Ignore Court Orders.”