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“What are the most significant Supreme Court cases to watch this term?” — John 

Hi John,

The court has already issued several significant rulings this term — on tariffs, voting rights, immigration and more.   

At this point, there are only eight cases left to decide, and they include some of the most consequential disputes. We could get decisions in any of them, though not likely all of them, when the justices next take the bench on Monday morning.

The court usually issues the term’s final rulings by the end of June or early July. Chief Justice John Roberts has a custom of announcing on the second-to-last day that the next opinion day will be the final one. But he made no such announcement when the latest batch of rulings came on Thursday, so it seems there will be at least one more opinion day after Monday.

Birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he signed an executive order that purports to end automatic citizenship for babies born in this country. The order hasn’t taken effect because it’s “blatantly unconstitutional,” as one of the several judges who ruled against Trump in the lower courts observed.

Now, the Supreme Court must decide whether to maintain the status quo or to green-light one of the president’s most lawless moves yet. Trump himself has said he thinks the Republican-controlled court will rule against him as it did in the tariffs case.

Presidential firing power over independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter

This is another big case, but Trump is expected to win it. The court is considering whether he can fire Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause. In weighing that question, the court is deciding whether to overturn its Humphrey’s Executor precedent from 1935, which has protected independent federal agencies for nearly a century. The ruling could upend agencies throughout the government, affecting many aspects of American life.

Whether the court formally overrules Humphrey’s Executor or not, the majority has broadly backed Trump’s federal firing spree and is poised to side with him here. One early signal was that the court let the president keep Slaughter out of her post pending the outcome of the litigation.

Presidential firing power over independent agencies in Trump v. Cook

A separate but similar case to Slaughter is Trump’s effort to oust Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Although the GOP-appointed high court majority has mostly been on board with Trump’s firings, it has shown that it wants to carve out special protections for the central bank, whose stability is important to the American economy.

One of the multiple signs that the court is more likely to back Cook is that, unlike Slaughter, the court kept Cook in her post pending the outcome of the litigation. Trump-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh said at the January hearing that the president’s position would “weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve.”

Mail-in ballot deadlines in Watson v. RNC

The court has more election-related cases to decide ahead of the November midterms. The Watson case is a challenge by the Republican National Committee, backed by the Trump administration, to mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive later. According to the Voting Rights Lab, 30 states have mail-in ballot grace periods for at least some voters: 14 states and Washington, D.C., have them for all mail-in ballots, while 16 more states have them specifically for military and overseas voters.

The president has railed against mail-in ballots while making unproven claims of widespread voter fraud. Yet at the March hearing, the lawyer who argued against the RNC said the administration couldn’t show “a single example of fraud from post-Election Day ballot receipt in this century.”

Campaign finance in NRSC v. FEC

The court is considering whether to further loosen campaign finance restrictions, in a GOP challenge to limits on political parties’ coordination with candidates on campaign spending. The case was brought by Vice President JD Vance when he was a Senate candidate, along with national senatorial and congressional committees of the Republican Party and former Ohio GOP Rep. Steve Chabot.

Their appeal questions the precedent that upheld those limits in 2001 by a 5-4 vote. They called it a “5-4 aberration” that was “plainly wrong the day it was decided.” The only justice still on the court from that 2001 case is Clarence Thomas, who dissented then, but the current majority is more aligned with his view.  

Transgender athletes in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox

The court is also set to rule on whether states can ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s and girls’ sports. There are two separate cases regarding bans in Idaho and West Virginia, respectively. The court seemed likely to side with the states on the matter that implicates similar laws in 25 other states as well.

Last term, the majority upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the Skrmetti case. Earlier this term, the majority sided with California parents on school policies that sought to prevent outing transgender students.  

Geofence warrants in Chatrie v. United States

Finally, there’s the Fourth Amendment case of Okello Chatrie, who was convicted of armed robbery based on evidence obtained from a “geofence warrant.” Such warrants are used to locate phones that were in the area of a crime to help law enforcement identify suspects. Chatrie argues that the government illegally invaded his property interest and privacy expectations. The government counters that he chose to share his location data with Google and that he lacked a constitutional interest in protecting it.

Geofence warrants have divided the lower courts and raised concerns for civil liberties, with one privacy group warning the justices that “the dragnet fishing expeditions that geofence warrants allow are not restricted to a small pond, but instead sweep in the full ocean of people who carry a cell phone.”

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For those who support the integrity of the historical record, especially as it relates to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it has been an unfortunate week. In fact, it was earlier this week when Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s highly controversial U.S. pardon attorney, published a bizarre item to social media, arguing that the scandal was a “hoax” orchestrated in part by the CIA.

Martin added, “The only thing worse than the lying CIA is the two-faced liar John Dean [who served as Nixon’s White House counsel] and the fiction-writer [Bob] Woodward. May they suffer in eternity.”

The Republican activist’s claims were ridiculous, but hours later they were nevertheless endorsed by Monica Crowley, a former Fox News personality who currently serves as the Trump administration’s chief of protocol. “President Nixon was the target of a Deep State hoax,” Crowley wrote online while referencing Martin’s tweet. “He will be vindicated.”

Days later, JD Vance appeared at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California, where the vice president kept the rhetorical campaign going.

JD Vance: “I think Nixon’s historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy.”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-25T21:03:32.010Z

After arguing that Nixon’s legacy is “enjoying a bit of a renaissance,” the Ohio Republican said, “As I joked … backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be, like, a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.”

As part of the same comments, Vance argued in apparent seriousness, “If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration.”

There are a few ways to look at comments like these.

First, the idea that Watergate wouldn’t have endured as a major political scandal may very well be true. In 1973 and 1974, there were still a significant number of congressional Republicans willing to turn against a corrupt Republican president in the face of overwhelming evidence; major media outlets aligned with the White House didn’t really exist; and it was an era in which there was greater accountability for political wrongdoing.

But what the vice president described was more an indictment of our twisted political culture and less a credible effort to downplay the seriousness of Watergate.

Second, the idea that Nixon was brought down by nefarious government insiders who plotted against him is plainly bonkers. We have, after all, heard the tapes. Nixon chose to engage in systemic abuses. His crimes were his own, not the fault of “the deep state,” whether Vance chooses to acknowledge reality or not.

Historian and journalist Garrett Graff, who wrote one of the defining books about Watergate, described Vance’s comments as “shockingly a-historical” and an “immature understanding of what Watergate was and wasn’t.”

Third, the idea that Trump was also targeted by nefarious government insiders who plotted against him is equally bonkers. Like Nixon, the incumbent Republican president is responsible for his own wrongdoing. We have, after all, read the criminal indictments filed against him in multiple jurisdictions.

Trump has chosen to engage in systemic abuses. His alleged crimes — some of which have led to convictions — were his own, not the fault of “the deep state,” whether Vance chooses to acknowledge reality or not.

Finally, let’s also not lose sight of what the incumbent vice president indicated to the public about his perspective on leadership and public service.

Timothy Naftali, the former director of the Nixon Library, told The Washington Post that Vance “should know better as a well-educated lawyer.”

Naftali, a Columbia University presidential historian, went on to refer to recordings that contained thousands of hours of Nixon’s Oval Office conversations.

“You can hear him suborn perjury on the tapes. He’s telling an intermediary, what to tell someone who’s about to be interviewed by the FBI, what to say and what not to say,” the historian explained. “You can hear Nixon being told that money had been found to hire teamsters to go and break the bones of demonstrators. That’s all illegal.”

“It’s not as if it’s a matter of partisan interpretation. The evidence is overwhelming,” Naftali concluded during his interview with the Post while offering additional examples of Nixon’s efforts to subvert legal protections. “If he [Vance] does know all of this, he’s telegraphing the kind of president he hopes to be.”

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Bolton pleaded guilty to one count of retaining national defense information while he was a national security adviser during President Trump’s first term, saying: “And I am sorry for it.”

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The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act has passed Congress with bipartisan support and is awaiting the president’s signature, which would provide a significant boost to housing supply and affordability.

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) will close with the North American premiere of Chinese breakout smash hit Dear You, directed by Lan Hongchun.  Well Go USA will co-present the film after acquiring North America rights and scheduling a wide theatrical release in September.  Lan and cast of the film will attend […]

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From matcha and pastries at Maru in the Arts District to roller-skating Venice-to-Santa-Monica and grabbing lunch at Gjusta, her itinerary leans into coastal calm amid urban chaos.