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\n After berating the Supreme Court for much of the year \u2014 while simultaneously inviting some of the justices over to the White House for dinner \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s final assessment of the court\u2019s momentous term this week felt something like a ceasefire.\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cThe Republican Party,\u201d the president posted on social media, \u201cwas treated very fairly by the United States Supreme Court.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The muted appraisal was a remarkable shift from just four months ago, when Trumpdeclared that the justices who voted to shut down his emergency global tariffs were an \u201cembarrassment to their families.\u201d The sudden bonhomie, if it holds, reflectsa term in which the 6-3 conservative court, grappling with many of Trump\u2019s policies for the first time, handed the White House big losses, but also a series of substantial wins.\n <\/p>\n

\n In all, the Supreme Court issued opinions in 58 merits cases, touching on a wide spectrum of American life and deciding who can play on high school soccer fields, who would win the national battle over redistricting andwho gets to be a US citizen.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here are some of the major themes from the Supreme Court\u2019s momentous term.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s term\n<\/h2>\n

\n Because of the way the court\u2019s calendar works, only a few Trump controversies received a full airing from the justices last year. Many of the administration\u2019s policies that drew the most attention in 2025 \u2014 such as its crackdown on immigration and expansion of executive power \u2014 didn\u2019t reach the Supreme Court in earnest until last fall.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump ultimately lost several of those cases, most notably birthright citizenship and tariffs, but he scored enormous wins on many of his other priorities.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 6-3 conservative Supreme Court vastly expanded the president\u2019s power to fire the leaders of independent agencies and allowed the administration to end temporary humanitarian relief for potentially more than 1 million people who have been living in the US legally to escape conflict and natural disaster in their home countries.\n <\/p>\n

\n And while Trump didn\u2019t have a direct stake in the court\u2019s 6-3 decision to allow states to ban transgender students from competing on girls sprots teams, the outcome was clearly aligned with his agenda and rhetoric. Same goes for the court\u2019s divisive 6-3 decision in April to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the 6-3 decision to erase limits on how much political parties can spend on campaigns in coordination with candidates.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The president hasn\u2019t been shy about criticizing the court in the past. In a lengthy post in March, Trump accused the court to which he appointed three of nine justices of being \u201clittle more than a weaponized and unjust political organization.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n At the same time, the president seemed to be engaged in a charm offensive, inviting the court\u2019s conservatives to a banquet featuring Britain\u2019s King Charles in April. He also publicly praised several of the conservative justices who showed at the White House in May for the swearing in of Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh.\n <\/p>\n

\n When the dust settled on the term, Trump seemed pleased. He focused much of his attention on the court\u2019s 6-3 decision in Trump v. Slaughter, allowing him to fire officials at federal agencies that Congress attempted to protect from presidential politics.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe biggest and most consequential decision issued by the court, by far, is the Slaughter case, which overturned the very famous Humphrey\u2019s Executor Rule.\u201d Trump wrote on social media, referring to a 1935 precedent the court toppled in that case. \u201cThis decision gives tremendous additional power back to the presidency, where it belongs.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n 6-3, 6-3, 6-3\n<\/h2>\n

\n When it comes to some of the biggest cases dealing with political power and the culture wars, the term did little to dispel the notion that this is a Supreme Court deeply divided on ideological lines.\n <\/p>\n

\n The justices handed down 6-3, ideologically split decisions in 13 cases this term, more than double the count last year. Those included cases upholding transgender sports bans, expanding the president\u2019s power to fire and endorsing much of his immigration agenda.\n <\/p>\n

\n The frequency of ideological splits is one way to test the court\u2019s self-styled image of being above the partisan fray in an era of Trumpian politics. Chief Justice John Roberts has often urged the public to not view the court as a partisan institution voting along party lines.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cPeople think we\u2019re making policy decisions,\u201d he said to a conference in May.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think they view us as truly political actors,\u201d he said, \u201cwhich I don\u2019t think is an accurate understanding of what we do.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Among the 6-3 rulings this term was a decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, an outcome that allowed state lawmakers in Southern states like Louisiana and Alabama to redraw their maps in a way that benefited the GOP. The court also allowedthe president to end a form of humanitarian relief for Haitians and Syrians, and it erased the caps on how much political parties could spend in coordination with candidates.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cFor those who would prefer even more money to be pumped even more easily into politics despite the danger of corruption \u2014 this overruling is for you,\u201d Justice Elena Kagan quipped as she in the campaign finance decision handed down on the last day of the term.\n <\/p>\n

\n To be sure, the court also issued decisions with surprising coalitions that crossed ideology, including in major cases. The court\u2019s decision on upholding automatic birthright citizenship put three conservatives \u2014 Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh \u2014 in the majority along with the court\u2019s three liberals. Roberts and Barrett were together again in a decision that upheld the counting of mail ballots postmarked by Election Day but arriving days later.\n <\/p>\n

\n The court unanimously settled a Second Amendment case that limited the government\u2019s ability to disarm regular drug users. Roberts, Barrett and Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the court\u2019s liberals to shut down Trump\u2019s emergency tariffs.\n <\/p>\n

\n By another measure, unanimous decisions, the court was roughly in line with past terms. The justices decided 25 cases this year unanimously, just under 44% of its docket of argued appeals \u2014 close to the 45% average calculated by SCOTUSblog for the past 20 years.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Kavanaugh\u2019s big term\n<\/h2>\n

\n As in past terms, Kavanaugh and Roberts were in the majority more than any of their colleagues, underscoring their firm grip on the ideological center of the Supreme Court.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cJustice Kavanaugh emerged as a key vote, a pragmatic jurist, and a thoroughly independent thinker,\u201d said Richard Re, a Harvard Law professor and former Kavanaugh clerk. Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the bench in 2018.\n <\/p>

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\n But Kavanaugh also moved closer to Trumpthis term, siding at least partly with the president in two massive decisions that wound up putting him at odds with the chief. It was Kavanaugh who wrote the lead dissent in the tariffs case. And, on the final day of the term, Kavanaugh declined to join the majority\u2019sreasoning for upholding automatic birthright citizenship.\n <\/p>\n

\n While the court\u2019s decision against Trump was 6-3, only five justices thought Trump\u2019s birthright order had violated the 14th Amendment. Kavanaugh wasn\u2019t one of them.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIn my view, the executive order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment,\u201d Kavanaugh wrote in a partial dissent that none of his colleagues joined.\u201cCongress could \u2014 consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment \u2026 enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Barrett has received sharp criticism from the right after she joined Roberts\u2019 birthright citizenship opinion. Vice President JD Vance this week called Barrett\u2019s vote against Trump a \u201cmistake.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\n Others were less diplomatic.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cImpeach rogue, activist judges,\u201d Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, posted. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at you Amy Coney Barrett.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Attacks aimed at Barrett any time she rules against Trump have become something of a ritual in recent terms. Kavanaugh, by contrast, hasreceived no such blowback.\n <\/p>\n

\n Re framed Kavanaugh\u2019s position in the birthright case as a \u201chybrid\u201d that had \u201cthe virtue of pleasing no constituency.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe both frustrated the administration by invalidating the executive order and disappointed liberals by rejecting the plaintiffs\u2019 constitutional claim,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Tensions flare\n<\/h2>\n

\n Long before the end of the term there were signs of strife as some of the justices wrestled publicly with the significance of a series of emergency docket rulings on Trump\u2019s policies \u2014 most of which landed in the president\u2019s favor.\n <\/p>\n

\n Just as that tension eased, the court handed down its blockbuster decision on voting rights in April. And that seemed to widen the gulf between the court\u2019s conservative and liberal wings.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cCourts are apolitical,\u201d liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court\u2019s junior justice, said at an event in May, adding that her colleagues missed the mark in avoiding the appearance of politics. \u201cWe have to be scrupulous about sticking to the principles and the rules that we apply in every case and not look as though we\u2019re doing something different in this kind of context.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Justice Sonia Sotomayor had to apologize in April after directing \u201churtful\u201d comments at Kavanaugh about his opinion in another case. And the court had to clean up after an unusual exchange on the bench in which Justice Samuel Alito signaled he had been blindsided by Sotomayor\u2019s decision to read a dissent in one of his cases.\n <\/p>\n

\n The court later told CNN that Sotomayor had indeed given Alito\u2019s chambers a heads up, which apparently never reached the justice. \u201cIt was a misunderstanding on Justice Alito\u2019s part,\u201d a court spokesperson said.\n<\/p>\n

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\n The court resolved several important cases this term by simply removing the judiciary from the equation.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the decision upholding Trump\u2019s ability to end temporary humanitarian protections for people from Haiti and Syria, a 6-3 majority ruled that federal courts couldn\u2019t review the president\u2019s decisions on the program.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a case involving a devout Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut in prison, the court\u2019s conservatives concluded that people could not sue under a federal law intended to protect the religious rights of prisoners.\n <\/p>\n

\n The justices barred people from suing companies on claims that they aided and abetted torture overseas. And it ruled 7-2 that a federal law blocks people who say the herbicide Roundup caused their cancer from suing the company that makes that product.\n <\/p>\n

\n Those decisions continue a trend over the past several years of the court finding that only Congress can authorize lawsuits, not courts.Critics say that approach has effectively left people who have been injured with no recourse.\n <\/p>\n

\n Next term, the court has agreed to hear a case involving a prisoner who sued federal prison officials for failing to transport him to a hospital after a gang-related fight left him severely injured. Though the prisoner\u2019s tailbone was fractured, he was treated only with over-the-counter pain medication.\n <\/p>\n

\n The court could use the case to severely limit the ability of Americans to sue federal officials.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA tragic pattern of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decisions is leaving individuals who have been seriously injured and whose rights have been violated with no remedy whatsoever,\u201d Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley law school, told CNN. \u201cRights are meaningless without courts to provide remedies when they are violated.\u201d\n <\/p>

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