Overview

• On June 27 in the birthright citizenship case Justice Barrett authored a 6-3 opinion that curtailed federal judges’ power to issue universal injunctions blocking administration policies.
• The conservative bloc upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors.
• Justices backed Texas’s law requiring adult websites to verify user ages and affirmed parental opt-out rights for LGBTQ+ classroom materials.
• Liberal Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson frequently dissented—sometimes reading their objections from the bench—to criticize the court’s conservative rulings.
• President Trump has secured confirmation of 54 circuit court judges, reshaping the lower federal judiciary with a lasting conservative majority.