The American Supreme Court decisions at July 2025:
Workforce Reductions
Trump v. AFGE
- Issue: Nationwide injunction blocked mass federal worker terminations.
- Supreme Court Vote: 6-3, Justices Sotomayor, Brown Jackson and Kagan dissented.
- Result: Injunction stayed; Trump allowed to proceed with cuts.
2. Education Department Reinstatements
McMahon v. New York
- Issue: Required rehiring of Education Department officials.
- Supreme Court Vote: 5-4.
- Result: Lower court order paused, enabling Trump to proceed with agency overhaul.
3. Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Trump v. CASA
- Issue: Trump seeks to end birthright citizenship via executive order.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified, emergency stay granted.
- Result: Injunctions lifted; birthright citizenship restrictions allowed to proceed pending appeal.
4. DHS Deportation Policy
DHS v. D.V.D.
- Issue: Blocked deportations without torture risk assessments.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified.
- Result: Deportations resumed under revised policy.
5. Labor Board Reinstatements
Trump v. Wilcox
- Issue: Removal of NLRB and MSPB members challenged.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified, stay granted.
- Result: Trump removals upheld for now.
6. DHS Parole Policy Repeal
Noem v. Doe
- Issue: End of categorical parole for certain nationalities.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified.
- Result: Trump policy allowed to proceed.
7. Social Security Access Limits
SSA v. AFSCME
- Issue: Restricted union access to SSA systems.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified.
- Result: Restriction allowed to take effect.
8. DOGE FOIA Disclosures
U.S. Doge Service v. CREW
- Issue: FOIA request for DOGE-related records.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified.
- Result: Disclosure blocked pending further review.
9. Immigration Removals to Third Countries
Trump v. J.G.G.
- Issue: Deportation under Alien Enemies Act.
- Supreme Court Vote: 5-4.
- Result: Deportations permitted.
10. Deportation Notice Requirements
W.M.M. v. Trump
- Issue: Due process in deportation to unsafe nations.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified, remanded for notice standards.
- Result: Some removals delayed pending notice review.
11. Firing of Federal Watchdog
Bessent v. Dellinger
- Issue: Independent oversight official terminated.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified, stay lifted.
- Result: Trump firing allowed.
12. Education Grant Rule Reversal
Education Department v. California
- Issue: Funding obligations reinstated by lower court.
- Supreme Court Vote: 6-3.
- Result: Reinstatement order blocked.
13. CDC Parole Program Rollback
Noem v. National TPS Alliance
- Issue: Removal of TPS status for Venezuelans.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified.
- Result: TPS rollbacks allowed.
14. Judicial Reinstatement for State Representative
Libby v. Fecteau
- Issue: State court removed lawmaker over “insurrection” claim.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified.
- Result: Reinstatement ordered.
15. Alien Enemies Deportation Procedure
A.A.R.P. v. Trump
- Issue: Minimum due-process rights before removal.
- Supreme Court Vote: Not specified, emergency stay modified, requiring basic notice.
- Result: Deportations can proceed with notice safeguards.
What People Are Saying
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, was asked on June Grasso’s July 16 Bloomberg Law podcast: “Can you hazard a guess as to why they’re giving Trump everything he wants? Are they just throwing up their hands and saying he’s the president?”
Super: “Well, the chief justice has long been known for wanting to present as united a court as possible. I’m guessing that the chief justice has reached the point of despairing of getting his colleagues to join him and is not eager to override the administration on bare 5-4 or 6-3 votes.”
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-supreme-court-rules-donald-trump-15-times-row-2100190
Chief Justice Roberts:
- Roberts authored landmark rulings including Trump immunity
- Era marked by decisions on abortion, race, religion and guns
- Roberts was sworn in as chief justice on September 29, 2005
The Reuters article goes on to say:
The Roberts Court is the most conservative court in 100 years, and it has laudably corrected major jurisprudential mistakes in abortion, affirmative action, guns and the administrative state. While conservatives may not have won every major policy battle at the court, the consensus is they have won the war – at least for now,” George Mason University law professor Robert Luther III said.
“Conservatives overwhelmingly welcome the court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, its ruling that the (U.S. Constitution’s) Equal Protection Clause bars racial preferences in college admissions, and its various rulings on religious liberty,” said Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who served as a Bush administration Justice Department official.
Roberts has personally written the decisions in some of the biggest cases decided in the past two decades, though on occasion he has been more cautious than some of his fellow conservative justices.
“The modern conservative legal movement had been trying for a half-century to achieve the changes in American constitutionalism that have come under John Roberts, and he has played a significant leadership role in bringing those things about,” University of Pennsylvania political science professor Rogers Smith said.
We can read Rabbi Ari Berman’s work to learn how John Roberts led the charge to create the right wing conservative Supreme Court of recent years. See
Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act
August 10 2015
An October 2025 article in Mother Jones covered updated his work at:
Here is an extract from his 2015 book::
John Glover Roberts, a 25-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, arrived in Washington in early 1980. Harvard Law professor Morton Horwitz described Roberts as “a conservative looking for a conservative ideology in American history,” and he found that ideology in the nation’s capital, first as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and then as an influential aide in Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department.
At the time, Rehnquist and the Reagan administration were at the vanguard of a new conservative counterrevolution in the law—a legal backlash against the historic and liberal-leaning civil rights laws of the 1960s. Just months before Roberts came to Washington, the Supreme Court had significantly limited the scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. As a young lawyer, Roberts eagerly took up the conservative cause, becoming a key foot soldier in the effort to preserve that decision and weaken the VRA.
It was a fight Roberts would continue decades later, when he replaced Rehnquist as chief justice and authored the majority opinion in a landmark case gutting the VRA in 2013. Fifty years after the passage of the landmark civil rights law, and 35 years after he first worked so hard to dismantle it, Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America, one that shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
Dec 8, 2025
Lev Shalev, Substack:
1️⃣ SCOTUS POISED TO ELIMINATE INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
The Supreme Court heard Trump v. Slaughter today—can the president fire Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will? If he wins, every independent agency becomes an extension of presidential power. The Federal Reserve, FCC, SEC, FTC, NLRB—institutions designed to operate beyond direct political control. Trump has already fired Democrats from all of them, daring the Court to stop him. Last September’s 6-3 ruling allowing presidential removal of an NLRB general counsel showed where this is headed. The Roberts Court has denied only one of Trump’s 32 emergency petitions. This is Project 2025 made real. As Nick pointed out, we can impeach Supreme Court justices—impeachment can’t be pardoned. We need overwhelming victories in 2026 to take back the House and Senate. Melissa used a Navy analogy: when the hull is breached on one side, you flood spaces on the alternate side to keep the ship righted. “If we don’t flood this election, the ship’s going down.”
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