The Supreme Court’s new term began in October 2025, and the Court had already either agreed to hear or scheduled oral arguments for several legally and politically significant cases centering on presidential power. The Trump administration has brought a record amount of litigation to the Supreme Court, first through the Court’s emergency docket (on whether to grant stays and injunctions) and now through the standard docket where the Court will rule on the substantive merits of some of Trump’s…

Document Outline Conservative Bloc Liberal Bloc The Supreme Court’s 2024–2025 term was notable for numerous technical and procedural rulings on statutory interpretation and administrative law, cases on immigration and deportation brought by the Trump administration, and some of its typical hot-button social issues concerning individual rights. On the whole, the Court’s decisions were quite restrained. For instance, the Court did not strike down any state or federal laws as unconstitutional on…