President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is escalating its fight with the federal courts to new levels.

For nearly two years, the Trump administration has ranted and protested judges’ orders blocking or slowing its policies. Now it is taking more aggressive steps and asking courts to remove judges from cases and calling for scrutiny of their conduct, arguing that some have crossed the line from oversight into partisan obstruction.

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