Reviewing The Latest Supreme Court Term

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Today’s issue: Reviewing The Latest Supreme Court Term

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We may not be a soccer country, but we certainly love a competition…and a scoreboard. It seems like every Supreme Court term, after it ends, turns into just that: a tally of which political side scored more. Because America loves nothing more than making politics into a contact sport.

Trump won this case. Trump lost that one. Conservatives won here. Liberals won there. Someone on cable news says democracy survived. Someone else says it died. Somewhere, a law professor is muttering, “It’s more complicated than that,” which is both annoying and, regrettably, correct. (Sorry, by the way).

This term was complicated.

The president did not get everything he wanted. The Supreme Court rejected some of his biggest claims. It blocked his attempt to limit birthright citizenship by executive order. It rejected his sweeping global tariff theory. It stopped, at least for now, his attempted firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Those are not small losses.

But the deeper story is not that Trump lost some big cases. The deeper story is that the presidency, and the executive power in general, won. And in many ways, it won big.

As I see it, that is the theme of this term. And it can’t be ignored or stressed enough. The Court took away a few toys and handed over the toy box.

So today in constitutional law, let’s review the whirlwind of the Supreme Court’s latest term: the weird, the expected, the emergency avenues, and the sweeping impacts on immigration, voting, and the future of American rights.

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