Over the last few weeks, we've seen several district judges put a halt to some of President

Trump's executive orders, including his dismantling of USAID, his firing of thousands of government

workers, and his ban on people who identify as transgender from serving in the military.

Do these judges have this authority, or is this judicial overreach?

In this episode, we speak with the Manhattan Institute's Ilya Shapiro about the Trump administration's

multi-front battles with the courts. I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howe.

It's Sunday, March 23rd, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss the Trump team's legal battles is Ilya Shapiro, Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of the book Lawless, The Miseducation of America's Elites.

Ilya, thank you so much for coming on.

Sure, my pleasure.

Now, we've seen a flood of judges' orders blocking the Trump administration's various

attempts to enact his agenda on things like dismantling USAID, firing thousands of workers,

banning trans-identifying people from the military.

First, do these judges have the authority to impede the executive

branch? It depends. I mean, I'm sorry to, I can't generalize more than that, but the facts of the

case and the specific legal authorities are different as between Doge cutting funding versus the

president putting in new personnel policies for the military.

But in general, what we've seen is a lot of judicial resistance, if you will, to the administration's

actions.

In fact, there have been more TROs, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in these

first eight weeks or two months of the Trump administration than we

saw in all four years of President Biden. So I'm sure there are edge cases where the Justice

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