Hamlet, the depressed prince, is in the graveyard, looking at a dug-up skull: “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?”

In the new issue of National Review, we turn our attention to living lawyers and two vital matters concerning the law. Andrew McCarthy assesses the battle between the Trump administration and the courts: is the ongoing courtroom drama evidence of “judicial insurrection,” executive overreach, or both?

In “Trump’s Messy Courtroom Drama,” Andy writes:

Because Congress is indolent as well as paralyzed, it is increasingly left to the courts to rein in an overbearing executive. The president lashes out at the judiciary, but it is a form of transference. The rudimentary problem is that he isn’t popular, he lacks bipartisan congressional support, and, as a result, he can’t get his agenda enacted in a constitutional manner that would immunize it from much judicial interference.

Because Congress is indolent as well as paralyzed, it is........

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