Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration a series of legal victories

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 July 27, 2025

The Hill reported that as of this past Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration has filed more emergency applications to America's highest official body than his predecessor's did in four years.

That has proven to be a jackpot strategy for Trump, with the Supreme Court handing him a series of major wins. 

President allowed to remove Democratic appointees from independent agencies

The most recent one came last week when a six-justice majority permitted the president to fire three Democrat-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

According to The Hill, that ruling came in the form of an emergency order which had been sought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to an earlier decision issued by U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox.

Maddox, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2023, ordered CPSC Commissioners Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka Jr. to be reinstated as their case was being litigated.

The Supreme Court's decision came just two months after it reversed a similar order which barred Trump from removing Democrat appointees from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).

Supreme Court has given a green light to Trump's immigration policies

Meanwhile, The Hill noted how Trump has also found success via emergency orders when it comes to immigration enforcement.

In May, the Supreme Court gave the president a green light to revoke an immigration parole policy which had been adopted under former President Joe Biden.

The policy extended legal protection to hundreds of thousands of migrants who had arrived from four Latin American countries.

What's more, the justices also permitted Trump to deport illegal migrants to foreign nations other than the ones they originally came from.

Justices offer no explanation in many emergency orders

The Hill noted that attorney Kannon Shanmugam spoke at a Federalist Society event this past Thursday, where he speculated on why so many of the Supreme Court emergency orders lack a written explanation.

"It takes time to get members of the court to agree on reasoning, and sometimes I think it’s therefore more expedient for the court to issue these orders without reasoning," Shanmugam pointed out.

"Even though I think we would all agree that, all things being equal, it would be better for the court to provide more of that," he added.

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