James Romoser

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The Journal. · The Supreme Court and Trump: From Birthright to Presidential Power · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And then in the last couple of days, Trump suffered a couple other big losses.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court blocked him from reshaping the Federal Reserve by firing one of its members.

And then today in the birthright citizenship case, the court, as we've talked about, struck down that attempt as well.

The wins occurred largely on the Supreme Court's emergency docket, when there were a number of different legal challenges to various aspects of Trump's policy agenda.

Things like his mass firing of government employees, his slashing of research grants and foreign aid, his stepping up of deportations.

And so that series of rulings has effectively allowed Trump to implement much of his second term agenda.

So my view is that, you know, a lot of these Trump-related fights kind of took up all the oxygen in the room.

That's where all the attention was focused on.

And a lot of the Trump-related fights were somewhat unconventional, right?

So enacting a global terrorist program or trying to threaten the independence of the Federal Reserve are not typical actions from a typical Republican president.

And so the court, you know, had to spend a lot of capital on those somewhat unorthodox cases that we haven't seen from prior presidents.

But at the same time, and I think with somewhat less fanfare, the court, in a separate batch of cases, has continued to march the law steadily to the right on a number of pillars of the traditional conservative legal movement.

The court did that in a way that critics say will really curtail the ability of minority voters to elect their preferred candidates.

And that ruling has already begun to help Republicans gerrymander congressional maps in red states in a way that will help that party in the midterm elections.

So that Voting Rights Act case is really important.

So a lot of these cases that don't directly involve Trump really do continue to advance priorities of the broader conservative legal movement.

And I think what those cases show is that even though the court has been willing to push back against Trump in some cases, like in birthright citizenship—

We still have a quite conservative Supreme Court that, you know, is dominated by six Republican appointees who continue to move the law and the country to the right.

Yeah, I mean, well, it really has been a whirlwind.

But in this day and age, you know, the court actually doesn't even get that much of a summer vacation because even though it's not formally hearing cases for arguments during the summer, the court's emergency docket is alive and well.

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