Donald Trump enters his second term in a stronger position than his first, with fewer opportunities to challenge his authority.

In his victory speech, he promised that his mantra for his second term would be “promises made, promises kept,” and the presidential campaign saw many of them made, from restricting abortion to firing special counsel Jack Smith to cutting taxes.

Here are just a few of the reasons he is now in a stronger position heading into the White House than he was in 2016:

It has a decidedly conservative Supreme Court

Trump entered the White House in 2016 with little opportunity to put his own stamp on the Supreme Court. Then he was able to appoint justices to the Supreme Court three times in four years.

Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died and Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace him.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court's moderate swing voter, resigned in 2018, allowing Trump to nominate conservative Brett Kavanaugh.

With two Republican candidates replacing two Republican candidates, Trump still had a slim 5-4 majority.

Then, in the final months of his presidency, liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at age 87, leading to a sea change in the composition of the Supreme Court.

Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett but never saw the full impact during his term. Roe v. Wadefor example, was overturned in the middle of the Biden administration.

This time, Trump enters the White House with a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court and can claim credit for any conservative decision they make, since he appointed half of the conservatives to the court.

Lara Trump is co-chair of the RNC

Donald Trump's power within the Republican Party is such that he was able to choose his daughter-in-law as co-chair.

Lara Trump, the wife of his son Eric, gave a rousing speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention and gave a full-throated salute, echoing Donald Trump's stance moments before when he was shot and grazed in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

With the Trump family having greater control over the Republican Party, Trump is in a stronger position to assert his power and has less chance of internal opposition.

This all stands in stark contrast to the evidence that emerged in Washington, DC in October in Trump's alleged election fraud case.

The dossier of evidence shows that Trump apparently tried to convince RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel of his false election fraud allegations in mid-December 2020. He said he wanted her to spread a report about alleged rigged voting machines in Michigan.

She responded that a senior Republican figure in Michigan thought the report was “fucking crazy” and made it clear to Trump that she would neither promote nor endorse it. Trump denied any wrongdoing in the case and said he was the victim of a political witch hunt. The judge overseeing the case is also considering the extent to which Trump is protected by immunity.

Newsweek sought emailed comment from the Trump campaign and the RNC on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has granted him extensive immunity

Trump has far more legal protections than in his first term. This is thanks to a July 1 Supreme Court ruling that gave him broad immunity from prosecution.

He enjoys complete immunity for presidential actions, which include even conversations with a vice president about potentially illegal activities, and presumptive immunity when the vice president acts in his role as Senate president.

Furthermore, no evidence from Trump's official presidency can be used as evidence to support a conviction for purely private acts.

That sparked a crisis among federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., who charged Trump with alleged election fraud.

They had to write a new indictment, nine pages shorter than the original and omitting some of the key evidence. The new indictment then had to be approved by a grand jury before being presented to Judge Tanya Chutkan.

Now that Trump enters his second term with such strong legal protections, he will be able to implement his agenda with much less worry about possible prosecution.