Jurisprudence By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Shirin Ali ? April 23, 2026 5:45 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images. This is Executive Dysfunction , a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back—and keeps you posted on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. Click here to receive it in your inbox each week. A core strategy of President Donald Trump’s second term has been manipulation by brute force, particularly over the judiciary. In what feels like a never-ending list of legal challenges, Justice Department lawyers have brazenly asserted that executive branch authority is unreviewable by courts all over the country in order to push through the president’s agenda.…