Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its "war on terror" prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed. "A state of war is not a blank check for the President,

The Justice Department submitted multiple filings with the Supreme Court that accused federal judges of abusing their constitutional powers, while lower courts criticized the Trump administration’s expansive view of presidential power.

President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders