According to many legal experts, U.S. President Donald Trump is challenging judicial constraints on executive power, even at the risk of a constitutional crisis. This may be new in the United States, but it follows a pattern seen in countries such as Brazil, Israel, Hungary, and Turkey.

Why are so many democratically elected leaders defying the courts? How do the judiciary and civil society in other countries respond? And what lessons can the United States draw from those clashes? Andrew O’Donohue recently argued in FP that the experiences of other countries offer several paths for courts to prevail—but that America’s judicial crisis is uniquely dangerous.