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Fox News declares war on the judiciary over rulings against the Trump administration

Media Matters for America · Media Matters for America · last updated

Fox News personalities and guests made at least 113 individual claims attacking the legitimacy of court rulings against President Donald Trump from January 28, when a federal judge first halted the administration’s freeze of federal aid programs, through March 18. In at least 68 of those claims Fox News personalities and guests attacked judges; in 64, they accused courts of overstepping their constitutional authority; and in 3, they directly advocated for the administration to defy court orders.

Legal experts warn the Trump administration is provoking a constitutional crisis by failing to comply with court rulings, with Georgetown University law professor Steve Vladeck saying the country is seeing “an unprecedented degree of resistance, willful or otherwise, to judicial mandates against the federal government.”

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