By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) -Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in remarks made at a time when Donald Trump is seeking to exert expansive executive powers, emphasized the need for Americans to know the difference between a president and a king as she spoke on Tuesday about how to improve civics education.

The second Trump administration has filed roughly the same number of applications so far as the Biden administration did over four years. But they have fared quite differently.

An appeals court had ruled that Willis and her office can’t prosecute the state election interference case against Trump and others.

Several judges handling cases involving legal challenges to Trump policies in recent months have criticized rulings issued on the shadow docket. This controversy has brought renewed focus on the shadow docket, which long was a rarely used path for cases but now has become commonplace - and has surged since Trump returned to office in January.

Attorney Peter Cohen, a former George Mason University law professor and author who has written a book about landmark Supreme Court decisions and rulings over the past 220 years, joins In The Courts.

Anthony Salvatore Perri threatened to kill two jurists and said others were targets, prosecutors say. The charges against him come as the nation is seeing a wave of threats against judges.

At one point, Justice Sonia Sotomayor raised doubts about how much Americans are being taught about civics in schools.