Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, Israel says it has launched extensive new ground operations in Gaza,
two people are dead after a Mexican navy sailing ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge, a new blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease has been approved and research shows the average person's attention span has shrunk to just 47 seconds.
But first, the Trump administration has been pushing back against certain court rulings, raising a possible showdown over the separation of powers.
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President Donald Trump greets justices of the Supreme Court, from left, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, before addressing a joint session of Congress on March 4. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) |
Trump’s clash with the courts raises the prospect of a showdown over separation of powers |
Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings. It’s unclear if the bill can pass the House in its current form — it failed in a committee vote Friday. But the fact that GOP lawmakers are including it shows how much those in power are thinking about the consequences of defying judges. Read more.
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