Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of the nation’s judiciary, foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government.

Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded we face a reckoning as the president tests the boundaries of executive power.

As judges continue to block actions by President Donald Trump's administration, Trump and his allies could be setting the stage to defy rulings from the courts, Washington Post senior political reporter Aaron Blake reports.