From the Washington Post: Trump’s anger at courts, frayed alliances could upend approach to judicial issues

Many of the plans detailed here would tie together the executive and judicial powers, and give the president more direct control over the justice department. 

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Trump has complained publicly and privately that his first-term Justice Department leaders were too weak, that his Supreme Court picks have tried to come across as too “independent” and that the court system has broadly been biased against him, as he faces 91 felony charges. Trump told donors in meetings in late 2023 that one of his only mistakes as president was that he did not pick the right people to lead the Justice Department, according to people who attended, and he regularly discusses plans for the department in a second term.


Terminology: 

- conservative legal establishment
- Federalist Society
- stock the federal bench
- Leonard Leo
- Donald McGahn
- Mitch McConnell
- top attorney general candidates
- Article III project
- judicial advocacy group
- Jeffrey Clark
- Deregulation
- Faith and Freedom Coalition
- Insurrection Act
- White House Counsel’s Office
- populate the agencies.
- Project 2025