As of March 15, at least 46 federal court decisions involving Donald Trump’s agenda or Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have at least temporarily paused some of these initiatives.
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There’s a logjam of cases making their way from lower courts to the Supreme Court, where the fate of most of those initiatives will be decided. Trump knew that federal courts, with few exceptions, would oppose him. Most of the judges were appointed by Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and the cases have been filed in left-friendly districts like Boston, Maryland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
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More than 160 lawsuits have been filed, keeping federal judges busy sorting out what’s legal and what isn’t. However, these are the preliminary bouts. The Main Event
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