Supreme Court keeps handing Trump wins
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has facilitated President Donald Trump’s ability to enact significant policy shifts with minimal judicial resistance. Several of these emergency rulings are temporary stays, not final merits decisions, and the Court has now agreed to hear full arguments in multiple Trump-related cases.
This development has prompted sharp criticism from liberal justices and legal scholars who argue it weakens constitutional checks and balances. The Court recently rejected a challenge to Trump’s broadened executive control over federal funding allocations, reinforcing concerns about the use of the “shadow docket” to expedite rulings favoring the administration.
Congress has also begun exploring legislative responses to curb the shadow docket or clarify limits on executive power. These developments suggest the current pattern may still evolve, with higher-stakes rulings ahead.
The Court previously upheld Trump’s authority to redirect $2 billion in education funds to border security, intensifying debates over judicial deference to executive power. Critics highlight the Court’s trend of siding with Trump in 21 of 23 emergency cases, including controversial measures like transgender military restrictions and foreign aid suspensions.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the Court’s approach, stating, “Right when the Judiciary should be hunkering down to do all it can to preserve the law’s constraints, the Court opts instead to make vindicating the rule of law and preventing manifestly injurious Government action as difficult as possible.”
Jackson added, “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
Tulane University constitutional law professor Stephen Griffin emphasized the broader implications, noting, “These aren’t decisions that somehow maintain the status quo.” He added, “If they give the president the benefit of the doubt, that might mean that your husband ends up in an El Salvador prison … that means your research doesn’t get funded.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Court’s framework, emphasizing, “The framers recognized, in a way that I think is brilliant, that preserving liberty requires separating the power.” He stated, “No one person or group of people should have too much power in our system.”
Michael Davis covers U.S. politics & news for content partner Modern Newsstand LLC.
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Most of these SCOTUS decisions were basic common-sense decisions. For example, the Chief Executive gets to fire those who serve in the executive branch of government. Most of the district judge injunctions were clearly outrageous and meant to slow down the President's policies.
Trump won the election, so my advice is to get over it.
So you want to live in a dicktatorship. Got it
They do. They are still hoping Project 2025 is real and Trump takes over the government and cancels elections, so they can keep control. It doesn't look like that will really happen without bloodshed so, when the next Dem comes in and cleans Trump sycophants out they will all cry about how unfair it is.
I appreciate all the new legal precedents being set for the POS/POTUS by his bought and paid for SCOTUS. they're going to come in very handy in 2029. I'll really appreciate the round of pardons for those that accidentally get carried away in expressing their displeasure at what's left of maga criminals, traitors, and child molesters. it'll be like maga squid games before the next election as they try to unwind all those unconstitutional rulings, while they cower in fear for their lives. good luck!
If Trump was a dictator, he would have ignored the injunctions instead of pausing what he was doing and appealing the injunctions. He has followed the law.
he did ignore the injunctions
PROVE IT
I'll be back when the proof arrives.
Adios.
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ChatGPT:
He returned Garcia and Garcia is still here.
So, he obeyed the district court while appealing it.
Challenging is not ignoring.
As a matter of fact, in his first term he allowed his temporary "Travel Ban" was hit with a national injunction, which he paused until the SCOTUS ruled that it was entirely legal. By that time period that he wanted to put it in place was lost. I told you all that it was legal and the activist district judges were gleeful that they thwarted his plan to hold up travel from countries that posed a threat to the US.
Both you and Trout are trying to willfully mislead people. It would have been very easy for Trump to ignore the activists in the district courts, but he didn't.
I am proud to say that the President is now exercising the authority the SCOTUS certified in his first term to issue travel bans:
"President Trump on Tuesday more than doubled the list of countries subject to his travel ban or to heavy restrictions, bringing the total number of nations affected by the sweeping set of immigration and entry limits to 39."
Trump doubles number of countries facing travel bans or restrictions, bringing list to 39 nations - CBS News
And this is another bald-faced lie. A sickening display of dishonesty.
You ignore the examples I provided via ChatGPT which explicitly focused on 2025 and instead go back to a case in Trump's first term that was NOT even mentioned and pretend that we had claimed this was a case where Trump violated court orders. A flat out lie!
Nobody has claimed that Trump ignores every injunction so you providing a case where he did not is slimy sophistry.
Dishonesty is no substitute for an argument.
ChatGPT:
Correct. Radicals like AOC urged Biden to openly defy the Supreme Court to applause on the left. Trump has followed every order a court has issued and appealed those he disagreed with, usually winning when it gets in front of sane judges. Those who claim he "defied the Courts" or acted illegally because a trial court ruled against him have little understanding of the legal process or are simply trying to whip up partisan anger.
You too are just making shit up while ignoring the content of the posts.
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