President Trump’s Biggest Power Cases Land in the Supreme Court’s Final Days
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President Trump’s Biggest Power Cases Land in the Supreme Court’s Final Days

The Supreme Court is running out of calendar, and some of the most important cases of President Trump’s second term are still on the table. These are not small disputes. They go to the heart of who runs the executive branch and who decides who gets to be an American citizen. The left has spent the last year trying to bottle up Trump’s agenda in lower courts. The final stretch of this term puts the biggest questions right back where they belong. Reuters reported on June 28, 2026, that three major Trump-related rulings were still due as the term neared its end. The outlet named the three: Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship, and two fights over whether he can remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission. Reuters also reported that seven disputes overall remained unresolved, with the justices setting Monday, June 29, 2026, as the next opinion day. That timing is the story. The Court is closing the term with questions about citizenship, executive power, and the administrative state all crowded into the same final stretch, with the administration waiting to see how much room the justices will give the presidency. For Trump, those are not abstract legal fights. They determine whether elected presidential authority can survive the lower-court blockade that has followed almost every major move of his second term. The birthright case carries the Supreme Court docket name Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Barbara, et al. The Supreme Court docket shows the case was docketed September 29, 2025, and came out of the First Circuit. At issue is whether the administration can enforce Trump’s order limiting automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are here unlawfully or only temporarily. That is why the case matters beyond one order. It asks whether the old Beltway assumption about automatic citizenship is actually what the Constitution commands, or whether the political class converted a contested reading into permanent policy by repetition. For decades, the open-borders crowd treated that question as settled by slogan. Trump’s order forces the Court to deal with the constitutional argument directly before the country heads deeper into the midterm cycle. The other two cases go after a different target: the so-called independent agencies that act like they answer to no one. The Supreme Court docket for Trump, President of the United States v. Lisa D. Cook lists Cook as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, with the case coming up from the D.C. Circuit. That dispute sits squarely inside the broader presidential removal-power fight. The question is simple to state and huge in effect: can the president remove an official inside one of these agencies, or do they get to outlast the man the voters elected? The Cook case matters because the Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in Washington. If its officers can wall themselves off from presidential accountability, the voters lose one more lever over the people exercising national power. The Supreme Court docket for Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter raises the same theme at the Federal Trade Commission, also out of the D.C. Circuit. Slaughter is a Federal Trade Commission figure, and the case fits the same independent-agency removal fight as Cook. That makes the pair hard to separate. One case points at the Fed, the other at the FTC, and both ask whether the executive branch can keep acting like a museum exhibit after voters choose a new president to change direction. Put the Cook and Slaughter cases together and you have a direct test of whether a president can actually control his own branch of government. None of this is settled yet, and the term is not over. What is clear is that the final days of this Supreme Court term are stacked with Trump power cases, and the answers will shape what the next three years of his presidency look like. The post President Trump’s Biggest Power Cases Land in the Supreme Court’s Final Days appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.