New Supreme Court term will reshape Trump's powers

Legal challenges have slowed Trump's attempts to expand presidential power. Now the highest US court is going to weigh in.

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In the eight months that Trump has been back in the White House, he has tested the limits of executive power, unilaterally implementing new policies, slashing federal budgets and workforce, and attempting to bring previously independent agencies and institutions more directly under his control.

The latest brewing legal battle comes from the president's attempts to take control of state National Guard units and deploy them in cities where he claims there is public unrest and rampant crime - over the objection of local and state officials.

In Oregon, a federal judge has issued orders blocking Trump's deployment of troops to Portland. An appeals court is set to review the move in the coming days.

"This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law," Judge Karin Immergut, whom Trump appointed to the bench in his first term, wrote in her Saturday opinion.