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CBS Legal Analyst Predicts Trump Will Face Major SCOTUS Losses In 2026, Despite Recent Wins
CBS News legal analyst Jan Crawford insisted that despite recent history suggesting otherwise, 2026 would be a year of losses for President Donald Trump, particularly in the Supreme Court.
Crawford joined the discussion on Sunday morning’s broadcast of “Face the Nation,” and although she conceded that the Trump administration had seen “tremendous success” with regard to the Supreme Court, she was absolutely certain that pattern would not hold.
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The Trump administration will “absolutely not” win its case before the Supreme Court on the legality of President Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, says @JanCBS.
The Court’s next term in 2026 is “highly consequential” as it also rules on tariffs,… pic.twitter.com/mGLeSqyJDd
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 28, 2025
Despite the fact that the Supreme Court has given President Trump a lot of wins in the form of emergency rulings — which pause lower court rulings and allow his policies to take effect while the related litigation plays out — Crawford predicted that Trump’s luck in the high court was likely to dead end in the case on birthright citizenship.
“Those are temporary, interim orders,” Crawford said of the emergency rulings. “And the administration has been very strategic and only appealing adverse ruling from courts below that it thinks it can win.”
“Again, these are just interim orders. Once we do get to the merits, I don’t think Trump’s going to win all of these cases,” Crawford continued. “And I certainly don’t think he’s going to win the birthright citizenship case.”
“You don’t?” host Margaret Brennan pressed.
“No, absolutely not,” she replied. “And he may not wn the tariffs case. Right now it’s looking great for Trump in the Supreme Court, but it may look very different come June when we’ve kind of gotten through some of these big landmark rulings.”
Crawford went on to say that a number of other major issues would be a part of the “highly consequential” slate facing the Supreme Court in the coming months, from gun rights cases to trans identifying men in women’s sports.