Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz have raised the specter that the executive branch might openly flout the federal judiciary and prompted questions about how judges would respond.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) slammed the National Institutes of Health’s decision to slash billions of dollars in “indirect” costs for biomedical research funding, calling the move mandated by the Trump administration “devastating” and a “poorly conceived directive.”

A federal court in Massachusetts that has become a popular destination for lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's second-term agenda has moved to prevent litigants from engaging in "judge shopping" by suing in two of its courthouses that each only have one judge.

The judge in New Hampshire said an injunction would be issued immediately, with an explanation of his reasoning to follow on Tuesday.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin discuss what may happen if President Trump decides to defy a federal judge’s court order.

After an unusual delay, the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit closed out an appeal that sought to revive criminal charges against two Trump allies.