In the pending Trump regime, federal judges (most of them appointed by Democratic presidents) will form the most important firewall.

More importantly, fewer than 1 percent of federal cases ever reach the Supreme Court. Given the amount of federal litigation likely to be created by the upcoming Trump administration, the Supreme Court probably won’t be able to deal with even 1 percent.

Most disputes will be decided instead by 1,457 federal judges across 209 courts in the federal court system.

Examples of federal litigation we can expect:

1. Trump has promised to withhold, by executive action, birthright citizenship from people born in the United States to parents who are undocumented immigrants.