As I understand it, there are numerous injunctions and pending court cases. So, to claim "no legislation was necessary" isn't really accurate

Tell them. I've expressed before that if we got 80% of the rulings to go our direction, we were OK. We're being beaten at the USSC, doing better at the lower courts. But watching the guard rails go down is tough. It doesn't look favorable to me. Per AI

Supreme Court

Emergency Docket: the Trump administration has had a notable success rate, winning almost three times more often than other applicants seeking emergency relief.
Merits Docket: Rulings on cases that proceed through the normal appeal process have been less consistently in favor of the administration, with many cases splitting along ideological lines.

Lower Courts

Deregulatory Cases: A significant portion of the administration's deregulatory efforts have been blocked or withdrawn in lower courts, with success rates around 11% in some analyses, reports The Washington Post and CNBC.
Agency Action Cases: The administration's success rate in cases involving challenges to agency action has been around 22%, a much lower rate than the typical administration's 70% win rate, according to the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law and ABC News.
Federal Spending Cases: An analysis of lawsuits over federal spending showed that courts had temporarily blocked the administration's decisions in 66 of 152 cases.