Posted on 10/05/2025 11:40:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After months of emergency rulings, the justices will be asked to render final verdicts on economic and immigration policies at the core of Trump’s presidency.
The Supreme Court and President Donald Trump are headed for a reckoning.
After months of terse emergency rulings that largely avoided major confrontations with the new administration, the justices will open their new term on Monday faced with the need to render full, final verdicts on policies at the core of Trump’s presidency.
“It really is going to be a showdown,” said Jennifer Nou, a law professor at the University of Chicago. “So many of the president’s big-ticket constitutional issues and policy initiatives are quickly coming up before the court. All of this is coming to a head.”
Already on the docket is a case challenging the legality of most of the tariffs at the heart of Trump’s economic policy and another dealing with his aggressive push to exert greater control over independent agencies.
Though it is an emergency appeal, the justices are treating a case over whether Trump can fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook like one on the regular docket. It will determine the independence of the central bank and could have major implications for the U.S. economy, businesses and consumers.
The justices could also be called upon in the coming months to issue up-or-down decisions on Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship, his use of a wartime law to swiftly deport alleged gang members and his effort to strip 300,000 Venezuelan migrants of deportation protections.
The cases will force the justices to either embrace Trump’s sweeping assertions of presidential power or curb them. They set up a major test for the reputation of the court and the success of the president’s agenda, and either...
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Sometimes you can tell the source from the headline. BTT
I eagerly await the time when the NYT is forced to deal with the public that loathes it with a force that requires scientific notation adequately describe what’s coming to that disgusting collection of failed journalism majors.
“Grapple with”
“showdown”
“a reckoning”
They make it seem like a death match where one will win and one will lose. In reality, the Supreme Court is likely to shrug and say, “The President is right. He has the power. The court recognizes his actions as legal.”
I wouldn’t call that “a reckoning”, really.
You’re right. The Washington Cmpost is predictably stupid and biased
The post I came to make.
What SCOTUS will actually have to “grapple” with is out-of-control federal district court judges.
I think they'll punt.
It's up to Congress to control district court judges.
Justices will be asked to render final verdicts on economic and immigration policies.
Cup with dice rattling
Cue the music from the duel in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
What agencies under the Administrative branch are ”independent” of presidential authority?
Now I’ll be whistling that the rest of the night.
True.
As I recall, most of the cases in front of the Court are there after the Court stayed the lower court rulings. So, not sure who is grappling with whom.
But the NYT’s fiction is that everyone just agrees with them and it’s Trump vs. the World!!
Denial is not a river in Africa or a birdcage newspaper from DC.
No. The SC will have to limit the Out Of Control Lower Courts use of Unconstitutional
Lawfare against Trump.
The Supreme Court was forced to grapple with Brandon. He didn’t care to listen.
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