Supreme court

It’s been a less than stellar year for trans activists. Shortly after taking office last January, President Trump signed an executive order withholding federal funds from any school that permits biological men and boys from playing on women’s sports teams. Then in June the US Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning the use of puberty blockers and hormones for the treatment of young patients suffering from so-called gender dysphoria and seeking to change their gender identity. And on Tuesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases brought by transgender athletes seeking to overturn laws in Idaho and West Virginia barring biological boys and men from playing on female

Each Supreme Court term typically includes at least one explosive case that inflames political passions and captures the public imagination. When the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, or when it greatly broadened presidential immunity, as it did last year in Trump v. the United States, or when it ruled against race-based college admissions in 2023, it reaffirmed its centrality and reminded voters that it mattered. As it happens, very few Americans can name the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (surveys show it is consistently under 16 percent), but most know instinctively the high court’s opinions deeply impact governance, politics and culture. Before the

In case after case, judges ruled to stymie the executive branch for one main reason

In promising an economic boom, Trump has highlighted his responsibility for inflation and unemployment

The court is contemplating big changes to the Voting Rights Act

The President is on a quest to reform mail-in voting and traditional ballot tabulation machines

The judiciary should defer to legislative judgments on fundamental rights – but only if legislatures actually make such judgments

The President should win the battle over who has authority to appoint US Attorneys

This is not personal; this is what intellectual combat looks like

There’s another office Trump could seek – one that affords as much protection from prosecution or assassination as the presidency does

New data finds a much higher rate of serious adverse events from abortion pills than was previously claimed

The current setup is anti-democratic

The administration now has the Supreme Court’s backing

In the long term, his masculine policies will function less as a punitive expedient

That includes former officials, even if they are the president’s political opponents

Plus: Trans activists take over Capitol bathrooms & David Hogg mulls DNC run

Our nation has now crossed the precipice of using the legal system to persecute political enemies