“I have no doubt the administration will end up with major changes in these policies and their positions before the Supreme Court,” said Adam Winkler, a professor in the UCLA School of Law. Whiplash in the courts, from Trump to Biden to Trump During ...

What will the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, which Trump helped to build, have to say about Trump’s view that biding by the nation’s laws and its foundational document is optional?

Although the Supreme Court’s formal power comes from Article III of the U.S. Constitution, its real power comes from public support for the court as an institution. The court depends upon the elected branches for everything from its budget to its building to its calendar and its statutory authority to hear almost all of the cases that it decides.

President-elect Donald Trump's ambitious agenda could face pushback from an institution he has done much to shape: the Supreme Court.