To put the point as directly possible, the Supreme Court’s budget depends upon a functioning appropriations power.

President Trump’s Justice Department could change the department’s position on critical Supreme Court cases, potentially altering the trajectory of high-profile appeals before the justices. While it is customary for new administration’s to shift such positions in a handful of cases when a new party takes over the White House,

Trump wants us to go back to the bad old days when the entire executive branch could be hired and fired at the president’s will.