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During Trump's second term, the Supreme Court's critics will be grateful for its restraining influence

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Julian Zelizer : Donald Trump has not always been so keen to defend the Supreme Court .

He says he values " Fair and Independent Courts " only when he likes their rulings.

Zelizer says judicial review will be a check on Trump 's authoritarian impulses during his second term.

Julian Zelizer : Trump has threatened to yank broadcast licenses of news outlets he views as biased against him.

Zelizer says it's hard to imagine a federal appeals court would approve this assault on freedom of the press.

He says the courts will be a check check on Trump 's policies, but past cases have shown that courts can back him.

The Supreme Court's June 2024 repudiation of the Chevron doctrine provoked much consternation on the left but is apt to facilitate challenges to Trump 's second -term policies.

Anyone who is worried about what Trump might do during his second term should be glad that his agencies will no longer have that license.

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