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Supreme Court Opens New Term With High-Stakes Tests of Trump’s Authority

The justices pivot to full merits review after a summer of emergency orders that temporarily favored the White House.

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 17, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
The US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, on October 2.
FILE - The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Overview

  • Arguments begin this week, with a Colorado conversion-therapy free-speech case on Tuesday and a Louisiana redistricting rehearing set for mid-October.
  • On Nov. 5, the Court will hear challenges to Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping tariffs after lower courts said the law does not authorize them.
  • In December, justices will reconsider presidential removal power in Trump v. Slaughter, after allowing the firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to take effect; a separate challenge over Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s removal is slated for January after the Court declined to permit her ouster now.
  • The term also includes disputes over transgender student-athlete bans from Idaho and West Virginia, with lower courts allowing participation pending appeal.
  • The administration has logged a series of provisional wins on the emergency docket, including curbs on nationwide injunctions and immigration measures, with fuller review ahead and an appeal over birthright citizenship queued for argument next year.