Posted on 10/05/2025 2:36:35 PM 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 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.”
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 new Supreme Court term, which begins Oct. 6, includes three major cases with huge consequences for voting rights and President Trump’s powers. (Video: Alisa Shodiyev Kaff/The Washington Post, Photo: Tom Brenner/The Washington Post)
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 way, they appear certain to reshape the law.
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The left and democrats ARE heading for a reckoning with the SCOTUS. And, frankly, they’ve already been experiencing it in spades. It’s not a future event. It’s a current event.
“effort to strip 300,000 Venezuelan migrants..”
Interesting how events could change things. Currently US Dept of War has massive forces off the coast of Venezuela targeting drug smugglers from VZ. Both sides seem to be itching for an excuse to go all the way. Events is VZ will impact VZ migrants that are here.
Trump is right about birthright citizenship but might lose that one….but he has a very strong case on tariffs Presidents have been protecting various industries for decades using tariffs see Ronald Reagan and the steel industry for instance.
Nothing should be up to a popular vote Senate. Imagine these fools who can keep the government running negotiating tariff rates.
Pray for the justices.
Agree. The Constitution is frustratingly imprecise on this and some other details. There will be no real resolution until these sections can be rewritten, which will require a supermajority popular consensus; in other words, never gonna happen.
The Court has to know the future complete demise or survival of the United States of America hangs in the balance. They will vote for us or against us.
If they vote wrong, then I say “no” to the SCOTUS.
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”.
—Declaration of Independence.
from John Locke:
Governments are formed by a “social contract” with the people to protect these rights.
A government’s legitimacy comes only from the consent of the people it governs.
App dreaming, so far Trump has been on a roll with the Supremes.
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