The Supreme Court’s Season Finale, Explained

最高法院的季终大戏,解读

The Journal.

2025-07-01

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SCOTUS wrapped up a busy session, giving states room to restrict transgender medical care for minors, allowing the federal government to strip legal status for Venezuelan migrants and, in one of its final acts on Friday, clipping the power of federal judges to block President Trump’s policies nationwide. Jessica Mendoza speaks to WSJ’s Jess Bravin about the emergency cases filling the Supreme Court schedule and what that signals for the future. Further Listening: -Is There an Ethics Problem at the Supreme Court?  -Trump 2.0: A Showdown With the Judiciary  Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Last Friday, the Supreme Court issued its final rulings of the session,

  • and they included a major decision.

  • The decision that the entire country was waiting for,

  • the Supreme Court ruled on universal injunctions.

  • This is the power of a single judge to block an executive order for the entire country.

  • The decision,

  • which resulted from a case related to an executive order on birthright citizenship.

  • This is a big win for President Trump.

  • The court ruled six to three along partisan lines.

  • That ruling wasn't even on the Supreme Court's original schedule.

  • It's one of many cases this session that the justices were asked to weigh in on.

  • Our colleague Jess Braven covers the High Court,

  • and he says that it's those cases that are coming to define this moment in the Court's history.

  • I think this last Supreme Court session, how it's remembered,

  • will depend a lot on what happens in the next Supreme Court session.

  • And the reason is this,

  • is that the most suspenseful and perhaps important decisions that we got in this past term were not...

  • from the regular docket.

  • I mean, historically, those have been the most important cases, but not this term.

  • The ones that I think have been most significant have been what they call the emergency docket or the shadow docket,