Donald Trump

=== Judiciary ===
{{Further|List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump|Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies}}
[[File:President Trump Nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (50397882607).jpg|thumb|Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett|alt=Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett walk side by side along the West Wing Colonnade; American flags hang between the columns to their right]]
Trump appointed 226 [[United States federal judge|Article III judges]], including 54 to the [[United States courts of appeals|courts of appeals]] and [[Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates|three]] to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]: [[Neil Gorsuch]], [[Brett Kavanaugh]], and [[Amy Coney Barrett]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gramlich|first=John|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/13/how-trump-compares-with-other-recent-presidents-in-appointing-federal-judges/|title=How Trump compares with other recent presidents in appointing federal judges|work=[[Pew Research Center]]|date=January 13, 2021 |access-date=May 30, 2021}}</ref> His Supreme Court nominees were noted as having politically shifted the Court to the right.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/trump-legacy-supreme-court-422058|title=Trump's legacy is now the Supreme Court|first=Anita|last=Kumar|date=September 26, 2020|quote=[Trump's justices] will likely outlive Trump. They will likely ensure a conservative tilt for decades to come. And they will likely mark one of the most dramatic ideological turnarounds the court has seen in such a short timespan in generations.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[Voice of America]]|title=Trump's Lasting Legacy: Conservative Supermajority on Supreme Court|first=Masood|last=Farivar|date=December 24, 2020|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_trumps-lasting-legacy-conservative-supermajority-supreme-court/6199935.html|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The data behind the Supreme Court's shift to the right|date=May 28, 2023|first=Dante|last=Chinni|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/data-download/data-supreme-courts-shift-right-rcna86244|work=[[NBC News]]|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences|first=Joan|last=Biskupic|author-link=Joan Biskupic|url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/06/02/nine-black-robes-supreme-court|year=2023|publisher=[[Harper Collins]]|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref> In the 2016 campaign, he pledged that ''Roe v. Wade'' would be overturned "automatically" if he were elected and provided the opportunity to appoint two or three pro-life justices. He later took credit when ''Roe'' was overturned in ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]''; all three of his Supreme Court nominees voted with the majority.<ref>{{cite web|magazine=[[The Week]]|title=Trump takes credit for Dobbs decision but worries it 'won't help him in the future'|first=Grayson|last=Quay|date=June 25, 2022 |url=https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1014657/trump-takes-credit-for-dobbs-decision-but-worries-it-wont-help-him-in-the |access-date=October 2, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=In 6-to-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Ends Nearly 50 Years of Abortion Rights|first=Adam|last=Liptak|date=June 24, 2022|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-overturned-supreme-court.html|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=[[NBC News]]|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-able-kill-roe-v-wade-rcna84897|first=Sahil|last=Kapur|title=Trump: 'I was able to kill Roe v. Wade'|date=May 17, 2023|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref>

Trump disparaged courts and judges he disagreed with, often in personal terms, and questioned the judiciary's constitutional authority. His attacks on the courts drew rebukes from observers, including sitting federal judges, concerned about the effect of his statements on the [[judicial independence]] and public confidence in the judiciary.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Abby|last1=Phillip|first2=Robert|last2=Barnes|first3=Ed|last3=O'Keefe|title=Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch says Trump's attacks on judiciary are 'demoralizing'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-nominee-gorsuch-says-trumps-attacks-on-judiciary-are-demoralizing/2017/02/08/64e03fe2-ee3f-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 8, 2017|access-date=October 6, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite report|title=In His Own Words: The President's Attacks on the Courts|url=https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/his-own-words-presidents-attacks-courts|publisher=[[Brennan Center for Justice]]|date=June 5, 2017|access-date=October 6, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Katie|last=Shepherd|title=Trump 'violates all recognized democratic norms,' federal judge says in biting speech on judicial independence|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/08/judge-says-trump-violates-democratic-norms-judiciary-speech/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 8, 2019|access-date=October 6, 2021}}</ref>