Subject: Re: Trump must destroy the judiciary
The judicial branch of government seems to be the primary obstacle to Trump achieving his fascist dreams.

Not necessarily.

Trump has always used the courts tactically, not as a venue for resolving conflicts. In the past, it's often been rather beside the point whether he wins the litigation or not - it's a nice bonus, but he's achieving his goals (in whole or in part) just by having the fight. For most of these moves on immigration and against the schools, it's the same thing. It doesn't matter whether the courts ever rule in his favor.

Partially because just the threat or interim imposition of the policy gets him what he wants. Either people change their behavior anyway (immigrants being scared and/or leaving, schools or television networks buckling down), or he inflicts costs on them by virtue of the things they have to do in response.

Partially because these actions are driven by politics as much as (or more than) policy. One columnist labelled the strategy as "court baiting" - Trump does something that's clearly illegal, the courts stop him, and he gets to set up the political narrative of the guy fighting for what's right but being hindered by those nasty judges. That's a political win for him among his supporters and a fair number of persuadable voters. He doesn't necessarily even care whether the policy ever goes into effect - while he'd like that, he wins regardless.

And finally, all of this provides him insurance against the inevitable failures of these policies. He's not going to be able to deport a million people out of the U.S. per year (for a ton of reasons), and he's not going to be able to get Fair Harvard to reverse course and become a bastion of conservatism (though I will say as an economics concentrator it wasn't always that liberal to begin with). But now his voters will be well aware of how he was thwarted at every turn by those dastardly jurists, and they'll blame the courts for why only 250K immigrants were deported, even though that was always in the cards.