The White House sees few, if any, limits on President Trump's executive powers in his second term, but the federal court system is much less sure.

Trump's mass firings and dismantling of various independent agencies has run into hurdles in the judiciary, where the courts seem unamused with the “King” Trump idea that some of the president's allies have turned into social media memes.

“A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in one ruling rebuking Trump this week, pointing to an image the White House shared on X depicting the president as royalty.

After Trump’s first term, he pushed the bounds of power for former presidents, taking his case over presidential immunity to the Supreme Court amid four criminal indictments.

Now back in the Oval Office, Trump’s barrage of executive actions has sparked roughly 100 lawsuits, many of which challenge his expansionist view of presidential power.

In one of the latest challenges, Democratic state attorneys general on Friday joined the fight over the administration’s mass terminations of federal employees still in their probationary period.

“These mass firings are illegal and likely to cripple important federal initiatives throughout the country and in Michigan, and so we’re once again taking the White House to court,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) said in a statement.

Also in recent days, national Democrats, including the Democratic National Committee,

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