lawyers and bar associations, and civil servants. His executive orders (on which he was forced to rely, since Republicans did not control Congress) were almost all struck down by courts, including the first two “Muslim bans,” detaining children and separating them from their parents, diverting military funds to build the border wall, inserting a citizenship question in the census, and limiting asylum. Just as Trump sought to weaponize the criminal justice system against his political opponents (firing up crowds with calls of “lock ‘er up” about Hillary Clinton), so he manipulated it to defend his cronies (Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates), derailing some of their prosecutions. Trump also intervened in courts martial and criminal prosecutions of those convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and those accused of desertion and terrorism. Again, however, there was significant resistance, as career prosecutors withdrew from cases or resigned when subjected to political pressure; and federal courts convicted all of Trump’s allies—even though the president then used his unreviewable pardon power to protect them (and others with political pull). This book offers the most definitive account of both Trump’s abuses of power and the forms of resistance.