“President Trump may have built the Supreme Court’s supermajority, but it was the Reagan Revolution that prevailed during the just-completed term,” Bloomberg reports.
“The court’s six Republican appointees spent the session bolstering executive power, enhancing gun rights, eliminating campaign spending restrictions, and blunting the Voting Rights Act as a force for Black and Hispanic representation in Congress. In several cases, the high court overturned decades-old precedent or undercut laws passed by the legislature.”
“But the justices took a more restrained tack when it came to some of the president’s most audacious gambits: his bid to use an emergency-powers law to impose sweeping global tariffs, his attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook without giving her a chance to contest mortgage fraud allegations and his executive order aiming to eliminate automatic birthright citizenship.”
Financial Times: Supreme Court checks Trump’s power even as it bolsters the presidency.
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