As his courtroom issues as a civilian appear to be wrapped up, President Donald Trump continues to face lots of legal challenges -- 49 of them in fact, through his first 24 days in office.
Legal challenges have continued to pop up as Trump looks to implement sweeping policy changes through his executive powers. As of Wednesday, Trump has issued more than 60 executive orders, which haveresulted in dozens of lawsuits.
Trump’s courtroom history
During the four years he spent out of office, Trump faced four criminal indictments over his handling of classified documents, falsifying business records, and attempting to overturn the 2020 election, both federally and in Georgia.
Despite campaigning for a second term, Trump was forced to spend a good portion of his time putting out legal fires, and even though he was only prosecuted and found guilty in one of his indictments, he still was extremely vocal about his feelings on the court system.
Trump alleged that the legal action taken against him as a private citizen was an act of political persecution.
Now that he’s facing trouble in office, he’s once again alleging that his political adversaries are using the courts to hinder his ability to run the country as he wants. He even began alluding to courtroom manipulation before his election victory was certified.
“They’re playing with the courts, as you know, they’ve been playing with the courts for four years,” Trump said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in January.
Here are the lawsuits Trump has faced in his first four weeks as he looks to fix the border, end DEI efforts, cut federal spending, fix inflation, and address numerous other campaign promises.
On his first day in office, Trump began putting his immigration agenda in place, singing several executive orders and declaring a national emergency at the southern border.
Among the orders Trump signed was one that would end birthright citizenship in the United States. The order, if allowed to remain in place, will stop treating children as U.S. citizens if they are born in the country to parents who are undocumented or are in the country legally but not permanently.
Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, issued an injunction to pause the order on Feb. 5, making it so those born in the country automatically have U.S. citizenship despite their parents’ legal status.
Another move Trump made on his first day in office was to create the Department of Government Efficiency, a group meant to audit the U.S. government to cut waste. The department is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, and many have questioned Trump’s authority to give sweeping access to federal information to a non-elected person who was not approved by Congress.
Judge Jeannette Vargas, another Biden appointee, issued a temporary restraining order on Feb. 8, restricting the department’s access to the federal payment and data systems of the Treasury Department. Vargas argued that allowing Musk and his team access carried the risk of “irreparable harm.”
A move from Trump that was quickly met with legal challenges was his effort to shut down the United States Agency for International Development, a humanitarian outreach agency that is funded through Congress.
Upon the suggestion from DOGE, Trump moved to close down the department, firing thousands of workers while the remaining staff has been absorbed by the State Department.
However, Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, moved to block this effort through a temporary restraining that pauses the firing of 2,200 workers and plans to withdraw almost all of its overseas employees within 30 days.
Other cases
Other legal cases Trump’s administration is facing include some fighting his efforts surrounding trans rights, as Trump has sought to see prisoners housed based on their birth sex; CDC data, which stems from Trump’s efforts to end DEI efforts in the federal government; and immigration, as several cities are suing over pressures to comply with Trump’s immigration policies.