Trump awaits SCOTUS ruling on challenges to critical policy agenda items

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 June 20, 2025

President Donald Trump and his administration have been besieged from Day One by hundreds of lawsuits challenging myriad aspects of his policy agenda, a few of which have already reached the Supreme Court, if only on an emergency basis to handle preliminary rulings like injunctions.

Now, as the Supreme Court's term draws near its end, Trump is anxiously awaiting the justices' decisions on those important matters while numerous other unrelated opinions are released, according to the Washington Examiner.

Resolving these key cases promptly is undoubtedly a top priority for the White House, as they involve policies that are critical to Trump's overall agenda.

Birthright citizenship, nationwide injunctions

Arguably, the most significant pending decision from the Supreme Court is the issue of birthright citizenship, and, relatedly, the growing trend of district judges imposing their will far beyond their limited jurisdictions or the specific litigants of the case with nationwide injunctions.

At the core of this issue are three cases that challenged President Trump's executive order to substantially limit birthright citizenship, a long-standing policy that automatically granted U.S. citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, regardless of the legal status of their parents, which countless illegal aliens have taken advantage of over the decades.

Trump's order was blocked from taking effect by no less than three district judges across the country, which prompted an emergency appeal for relief from the high court so that the policy could be put into place and enforced.

As such, the pending decision from the Supreme Court, which, per SCOTUSblog's analysis of oral arguments last month, is decidedly unclear, will likely be focused exclusively on the nationwide injunctions issue and less about birthright citizenship, which is still proceeding on the merits among the lower courts.

Deporting criminal aliens to South Sudan

Another important pending decision from the Supreme Court for the Trump White House is a challenge against a Department of Homeland Security effort to deport several criminal illegal aliens to South Sudan, even as none of those individuals originated from that African nation.

An injunction was issued by a district judge while those criminal aliens were "mid-flight" to their destination, prompting an interminable layover at a U.S. military base in Djibouti, where they've been held in custody since last month.

In the case of DHS v. D.V.D., the justices must decide "Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order preventing DHS from removing non-citizens to a country not specifically identified in their removal order unless DHS assesses any potential claims such persons may have under the Convention Against Torture."

Reducing the federal workforce

Still another pending decision that is crucial to President Trump's agenda involves his halted plans to engage in widespread workforce reductions across the federal government.

Specifically, the case of McMahon v. New York involves the administration's stated intention to significantly reduce the number of employees at the Department of Education, which in turn has been earmarked for abolishment or substantial reduction.

Predictably, the workforce reduction was blocked by a district court's injunction and order for terminated employees to be reinstated, which prompted an emergency appeal for the justices to consider "Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order requiring the government to reinstate Department of Education employees fired as part of a reduction in force."

To be sure, the waiting game for these decisions is certainly frustrating for Trump and his administration, but that said, they likely won't have to wait too much longer, as there are only around a dozen more cases total to be decided and most opinions or orders should be released by the end of June or, at the latest, the first week of July.

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