President Trump’s attempts to reshape the economy and punish the nation’s oldest university were both upended in federal court over the last 24 hours.

First, the president suffered back-to-back defeats. One court declared many of his tariffs to be illegal, and another blocked him from barring international students from attending Harvard. Then, this afternoon, Trump secured a temporary victory when an appeals court froze the decision blocking his tariffs.

The court fights are new, but they probably feel familiar. While Congress has mostly fallen in line behind Trump, the judiciary has emerged as the primary check on the president’s power. Over the first 130 days of Trump’s second term, courts have ruled against at least 180 of his actions.

The White House hasn’t just noticed; they are outraged. “If these judges want to be secretary of state or the president, they can run for office themselves,” said Karoline Leavitt, the president’s spokeswoman. One of Trump’s top advisers, Stephen Miller, wrote on social media: “We are living under a judicial tyranny.”

On tariffs: The appeals court paused the ruling against the levies without ruling on the merits. The delay simply bought time for it to consider the government’s appeal.

In a separate ruling today, a federal judge ordered another, temporary halt to some of Trump’s tariffs in a case brought by an educational toy company. But the district judge, Rudolph Contreras, paused the enforcement of his ruling for 14 days.