A month into President Donald Trump 's second term, lawyers for the Republican administration seem intent on provoking a legal fight to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor that has been critical to the development of the modern U.

The case involves major constitutional questions about presidential power—but its unusual posture could make it a dud.

Of all the things the framers of the Constitution worried about, their biggest worry was that a president would become as powerful as a king.