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If Trump Defies the Courts, It Will Backfire Badly

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David Gergen : Does the Trump administration plan to ignore or defy future court orders that it disagrees with? He says the president is acutely aware of his own self-interests.

He says a confrontation between the courts would imperil the successful project by Republicans and conservatives to shift the Supreme Court .

Gergen says there are practical reasons for the administration to stay on the right side of the courts.

Julian Zelizer : Supreme Court sympathetic to conservative priorities is a huge boon to the right.

Trump administration is moving aggressively on many legal fronts to change the law and push the boundaries of executive power, he says.

Zelizer says it would be a bad idea for Trump and the GOP to rock this boat and lose their best opportunity in decades to fundamentally reshape the law.

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