Nina Totenberg

Bottom line, the court could end up overturning a nearly century-old decision that established independent regulatory agencies with fixed terms and barred the president from firing agency directors in

except for misconduct.

Also on the docket is a challenge to Trump's massive tariffs, as well as a case that could end what's left of the landmark Voting Rights Act.

In addition, Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is also back before the court.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

The court's docket includes many muscular assertions of presidential power, assertions that likely will have a willing audience at a court dominated by a majority majority.

more conservative than at any time since the early 1930s.

Bottom line, the court could end up overturning a nearly century-old decision that established independent regulatory agencies with fixed terms and barred the president from firing agency directors in

except for misconduct.

Also on the docket is a challenge to Trump's massive tariffs, as well as a case that could end what's left of the landmark Voting Rights Act.

In addition, Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is also back before the court.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

The term marks something of a showdown in which President Trump is trying to greatly expand his presidential powers by, among other things, limiting birthright citizenship and expanding his ability to fire the members of independent regulatory agencies.

While he faces an uphill battle on birthright, the conservative court seems likely to overturn a century-old precedent that barred the firing of independent regulatory agency commissioners

before their terms were over and without cause.

That would mean that the agencies that Congress established to be independent nearly a century ago would now be subject to presidential control.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

While the justices have allowed Trump to fire independent agency directors and to carry out race-based detention policies, those rulings were temporary and many are now returning to the court for full evaluation.

Then, too, there's the case challenging Trump's massive tariffs.

A federal appeals court ruled that Trump exceeded his statutory authority by relying on a 1970s statute that doesn't use the word tariff and has never been used to justify a tariff.