Overview
- Across 2025, the Court repeatedly lifted lower-court blocks, allowing the administration to dismiss federal employees, move forward with parts of a mass-deportation plan, and bar transgender people from military service.
- The justices set key limits by requiring notice and hearings before removal in Trump v. J.G.G. and by halting a National Guard deployment to Chicago, while narrowing nationwide injunctions in Trump v. CASA.
- The Court will hear challenges to the executive order restricting birthright citizenship in early 2026, with a ruling expected by late June.
- In Learning Resources v. Trump, the justices will decide whether emergency economic powers can justify sweeping tariffs, a ruling that could require refunding more than $100 billion if the administration loses.
- Cases testing the president’s power to fire independent-agency leaders, a Louisiana Voting Rights Act dispute, and challenges on conversion therapy and transgender athletes could reset the balance of executive authority and civil-rights protections.