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President Donald Trump has piled up a series of significant victories on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket since returning to power in 2025, securing a higher share of wins than his Democratic predecessor, according to a CNN analysis of cases.
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In the past year, the administration has received the conservative’s court’s blessing to continue building a massive ballroom at the White House, move forward with a plan to give the US Postal Service a role over mail ballots and ban transgender service members from the military. Many of those and other decisions came over the dissent of the court’s three liberal justices.
The latest win for Trump came Monday, when a 5-4 majority cleared the way for the president to continue construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting arguments from a preservation group. In an unsigned, eight-page decision, the conservative justicesconcluded that the National Trust for Historic Preservation likely lacked the legal right to challenge the project.
During his first year back in office, the president filed an unprecedented number of emergency appeals at the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court. While the pace slowed considerably in 2026, several significant appeals involving the Trump administration landed this summer.
Decisions on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket are not final, but the orders nevertheless allowed Trump to quickly reshape the federal government and upend immigration enforcement. Some of those decisions were reinforced on the court’s regular, merits docket this year while the justices ruled against Trump in others.
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Unlike the regular merits docket in which appeals can take more than a year to resolve, the emergency docket — or “shadow docket,” to critics — involves short-fuse questions about what will happen to a policy while lower courts consider underlying issues. Those emergency cases usually involve less briefing and no oral argument. The court often does not explain its reasoning or release full vote counts.
Trump has won more than 70% of the emergency cases his Department of Justice has filed at the conservative court during his second term, allowing him to wrest control of independent agencies, cancel funding approved by Congress and pursue some parts of his crackdown on immigration. Biden, by comparison, won just over half of his emergency cases.
Trump has suffered far fewer setbacks on the emergency docket. Perhaps the most significant came in December, when the court rejected the president’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents. More recently, the court rejected Trump’s firing of a top official at the Library of Congress.