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With Congress on the sidelines, judges and world leaders defy Trump

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The most serious pushback has come from two sets of people with little in common: foreign leaders and judges.

Judges have stymied parts of Trump ’s agenda they say violate the law.

Foreign leaders have challenged him for taking positions that upend the rules-based order that the U.S. helped build.

In doing so, they risk provoking Trump in ways that could boomerang.

Foreign leaders don't normally criticize or correct each other on camera, diplomats say.

When world leaders come to the Oval Office , they're not in the habit of winging it.

They arrive with points they want to make and rebuttals they've prepared.

When leaders like Macron and Starmer interject to tell Trump he's wrong, it's not something they do lightly; they feel they can't let his statements stand unchallenged.