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Many of court's rulings favor Trump

Even birthright citizenship was just a narrow defeat

By: Maureen Groppe
Bart Jansen
and Aysha Bagchi
USA Today

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's final decision of the term, striking down President Donald Trump;s attempt to limit who is born American was not what the president hoped for.
..... But the ruling was surprisingly close, given that birthright citizenship had been considered a settled issue for more than 125 years.
..... And Trump racked up a number of other wins at the high court, even if a majority of the justices ruled against him on two of the cases he cared most about: birthright citizenship and tariffs.

Birthright citizenship upheld

..... The Supreme Court on June 30 [2026] rejected Trump's attempt to put limits on birthright citizenship that were a centerpiece of his hard-line approach to immigration.
..... Five of the nine justices said the executive order Trump signed his first day in office violated the Constitution's citizenship clause. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it only ran afoul of a 1952 immigration law.
..... Trump urged congressional Republican to change the law, writing on social media. "The Supreme Court uphold Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in congress through Legislation."
..... Trump, however, would have to convince one of the five justices that any new law was constituent with the 14th Amendment.

States can limit trans athletes

..... In another June 30 [2026] decision, the court said states can ban transgender women and girls from competing on female sports teams without violating the Constitution or a federal law barring sex discrimination in education.
..... The president called the ruling a ""BIG WIN" on social media.
..... His stance on the issue was a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign. As president, he has moved to cut off federal funding to schools that allows trans girls and women to compete on girls' and womens' teams, and the Justice Department helped West Virginia and Idaho defend their bans.

Campaign finance rule repealed

..... Overruling a quarter-century-old decision, the court's conservative majority on June 30 [2026] struck down one of the remaining checks on money in politics.
..... The court's decision may benefit the GOP, at least in the short run, because Democratic candidates have not relied as much on financial help from political parties as they've been better at attracting small-dollar divinations.
..... "But in the longer term we can expect more parity," Rick Hasen, an election expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote on his Election Law Blog.

Ends limit on firing powers

..... Trump called the court's June 29 [2026] decision allowing him to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission the "biggest and most consequential Decision issued by the Court" for presidential power.
..... The court overturn a 90-year precedent, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, which restricted how presidents could remove members of independent boards.
..... Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion in a decision that could affect a dozen government agencies, writing that a president "must have the assistance of officers he can trust."

Backs Feds independence

..... By contrast Trump downplayed the Supreme Court's June 29 [2026] decision to block him from immediately firing a Federal reserve governor, Lisa Cook, posting on social media that the court sent the case back down to a lower court "on a strictly procedural basis."
..... However, Roberts wrote for the majority that Trump administration "has not shown that it is likely to prevail" at that lower court in defending how Cook was fired.
..... Roberts also emphasized that Congress has established protections for the governors of he powerful economic regulator and hat the country has a tradition of shielding central banking from political influence.

Late mail-in ballot receipt OK'd

..... The court upheld on June 29 [2026] a Mississippi law that countered mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive up to five days late.
..... Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's three liberal justices in backing the law. Barrett wrote that voters must make their decision by a specific day, not that the ballots must be received on that day.

Trump wins on immigration

..... Key decisions in the closing weeks of the Supreme Court's term confirmed three Trump mitigation policies.
..... One allowed him to end a humanitarian program. Temporary Protected Status, for 350,000 Haitians and Syrians. The program proves work permits and protection from deportation for people fleeing dangerous countries to live temporarily in the United States.
..... Another decision allowed him to turn away refugees seeking asylum at the border rather than letting them enter to await a decision on their applications. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that "more people will die."
..... A third allowed immigration officials to consider criminal accusations against green-card holders returning from abroad when deciding whether to allow them back in.

Tariffs rejected

..... The court overturned Trump's emergency tariff in February, [2026] gutting the centerpiece of his economic policy and forcing him to refund mer than $166 billion already collected.
..... The 6-3 decision found the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act didn't authorize Trump to impose tariffs on his own. However, other statutes, including the 1974 Trade Act, allow Trump to impose tariffs after investigating unfair trade practices such as forced labor or overproduction, both of which the administration is pursuing.

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