{"id":4056,"date":"2026-07-01T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:34:08","slug":"despite-some-losses-for-trump-supreme-court-delivers-enduring-conservative-wins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4056","title":{"rendered":"Despite some losses for Trump, Supreme Court delivers enduring conservative wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON \u2014 In the consequential Supreme Court term that ended Tuesday, the justices rejected some of President Trump\u2019s marquee policies that were personally important to the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4054\">Celtics trade Jaylen Brown to 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks, and two second-round picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Chief Justice John Roberts and two justices appointed by Trump joined with the three liberals to invalidate the president\u2019s sweeping tariffs. The court struck down Trump\u2019s order to end the guarantee of birthright citizenship for the US-born babies of immigrants lacking permanent legal status and temporary visitors. And the justices prevented him from immediately firing a leader of the influential Federal Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>But even as the justices chose key moments to push back on Trump, the court\u2019s conservative supermajority delivered generational, long-sought wins, including by expanding executive power, as the court that Trump remade in his first term continued a project of pushing the law to the right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The court endorsed Republican-backed efforts to lift limits on campaign financing, expanded presidential reach over immigration policy and the federal bureaucracy, and dealt a major blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark civil rights law.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe headline might be \u2018Court checks Trump,\u2019 but the through line is a concentration of power towards the presidency, towards the court itself and away from Congress, federal agencies and voters,\u201d said Deepak Gupta, a plaintiffs\u2019 lawyer who regularly argues before the court. Gupta said the decisions could \u201cfundamentally change the relationship between citizens and their government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the final days of a contentious term that began in October, the conservative majority overruled a 90-year-old precedent, clearing the way for Trump and future presidents to fire independent regulators over policy disagreements despite laws passed by Congress intended to insulate agencies from political pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That 6-3 ruling upends the structure of the federal government and weakens Congress\u2019 ability to restrain the president. It also raises questions about whether such agencies will continue to operate independently of whomever occupies the White House to regulate major parts of American life, from labor disputes to broadcast television to workplace discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There was one exception: The court shielded the independence of the Federal Reserve by blocking Trump from immediately firing one of its governors, Lisa Cook, over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The majority also fulfilled another long-held goal of the chief justice, who joined the bench in 2005, when it agreed in April to significantly weaken the Voting Rights Act. The ruling cleared the way for a Republican push throughout the South to redraw congressional maps, carving up voters and dismantling majority-Black districts in Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cConservatives are running the table,\u201d said Daniel Epps, a law professor who clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Republican nominee who was considered an unpredictable swing vote before his retirement in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In public appearances, the justices often take pride in the percentage of cases in which they are unanimous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re able to talk to one another and listen to one another, and find common ground a surprising amount of the time,\u201d Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of Trump\u2019s nominees, told David French of The New York Times in a recent interview. \u201cYou give us the 70 hardest cases in the country every year, where lower court judges have disagreed, and we\u2019re able to reach unanimity that much. I think that\u2019s a miracle, right?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4052\">Trump pulled in at least $2 billion after returning to the White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The justices did find unanimity 45 percent of the time, up 2 points from last term. They joined together, for instance, to say a Texas man could not be prosecuted for violating a law banning drug users from gun possession merely because he frequently used marijuana, and they agreed that a New Jersey anti-abortion group could bring a challenge in federal court to government efforts to seek its donor list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There were also examples of ideologically diverse lineups during the term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a 5-4 vote Monday, Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court\u2019s three liberals in supporting Mississippi\u2019s grace period for late-arriving mail-in ballots, rejecting a push by the Trump administration to invalidate a state law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Barrett also joined Roberts\u2019 majority opinion this week to uphold birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds. Trump appointed Barrett to the court in his first term, and her tendency to occasionally rule against his priorities has drawn harsh criticism from the president\u2019s allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gorsuch, who has a libertarian streak, also aligned at times with his colleagues on the left, more often than he has in the past. He sided with them in a case about the rights of criminal defendants who have entered into plea bargains with prosecutors and joined a dissent by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a liberal, in a case thwarting people\u2019s ability to sue the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup in state courts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But even so, a conservative bloc routinely controlled the outcome in cases large and small, with the center of the bench shifting considerably to the right and delivering 13 ideologically divided decisions in which all six justices nominated by Republican presidents were in the majority and all three Democratic nominees were in dissent. That was nearly a quarter of all rulings in which nine justices participated, compared with 11 percent in the term that ended in June 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those rulings included decisions that strip deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti and Syria and allow the administration to turn away asylum seekers fleeing persecution at the US-Mexico border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The majority continued a trend in recent years of limiting transgender rights after the justices\u2019 expansion in 2020 of workplace protections for gay and transgender workers. The justices upheld state laws from West Virginia and Idaho prohibiting transgender females from playing on women\u2019s and girls\u2019 sports teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Gorsuch, all conservatives, voted in the majority far more often than last term. In contrast, Justice Elena Kagan, a liberal, who has at times found compromise with her conservative colleagues, found herself more frequently in dissent this term, according to an analysis prepared for the Times by Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin at Washington University in St. Louis and Michael Nelson at Penn State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe six-person conservative juggernaut many predicted in 2020 was in full force this term,\u201d Epstein, a political scientist, said in reference to the year Barrett replaced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, and solidified the supermajority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The court\u2019s rulings were more favorable to the administration as it defended the government broadly this year than during Trump\u2019s first term or compared with all recent administrations since George W. Bush\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4050\">Maple Leafs land two-time Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky on three-year, $21 million deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(News Analysis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Despite some losses for Trump, Supreme Court delivers enduring conservative wins - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4056\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Despite some losses for Trump, Supreme Court delivers enduring conservative wins - 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