The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2024-25 term on Friday with a series of decisions that delivered sweeping victories to President Donald Trump, punctuating a week in which the administration prevailed in every major case before the justices. The term’s most consequential opinion, decided 6–3 along ideological lines, restricts federal district courts from issuing nationwide injunctions. Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said such broad orders "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts." The case stemmed from litigation over Trump’s effort to limit birth-right citizenship; the decision leaves the merits of that policy to lower courts but sharply narrows a legal tool long used to halt presidential actions. In other rulings, the Court upheld state bans on certain medical treatments for transgender minors, affirmed a Texas law requiring age verification to access online pornography, and granted parents the right to remove their children from public-school classes featuring LGBTQ content. The justices also allowed South Carolina to deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood and preserved the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes internet and phone service in rural areas. Trump’s lawyers have relied heavily on the Court’s emergency docket, filing 19 applications in the first 20 weeks of his second term—the same number the Biden administration submitted over four years. The justices granted the administration relief in nearly all of those requests, frequently without oral argument, underscoring how a bench reshaped by three Trump appointments is reinforcing an expansive view of presidential authority. Liberal justices warned the majority was fostering an “imperial Executive,” but the decisions cap a term that consistently favored conservative states and the White House. The docket for the term beginning in October is expected to bring further tests of the boundaries of executive power and the Court’s accelerated decision-making process.
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