Overview

• Last Wednesday the court overruled lower-court orders to let the administration remove Consumer Product Safety Commission members without cause
• The justices stayed injunctions against Trump’s transgender military ban, allowing it to remain in effect during continued legal challenges
• In June the court narrowed the scope for nationwide injunctions, prompting several district courts to revisit challenges to executive policies
• A Ninth Circuit panel on July 23 deemed Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order unconstitutional and sent the case back to the Supreme Court
• The conservative majority has effectively sidelined the Humphrey’s Executor precedent, weakening independent agency protections and limiting judicial checks