The Supreme Court is tackling several issues in its new term that President Donald Trump has voiced strong views on.
The president’s ability to shape political life will be determined by the court’s action, and its decisions will have momentous significance.
The legal scrutiny will be intense.
The justices will discuss what will be a major thrust of the court’s actions over the next 10 months, much of it centered on their evaluation of Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power.
The court’s conservative majority has so far been receptive, at least in preliminary rulings, to many emergency appeals from Trump’s Republican administration.
But there could be more skepticism when the court conducts in-depth examinations of some Trump policies.
There are other things at stake.
For ethnic minorities, it’s political representation. Then there’s the often-debated legitimacy of mail-in ballots, whether conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people can be banned, whether tariffs are legal, and whether Trump has the power to fire a board member of the Federal Reserve.
Constitutional law expert Rod Sullivan joins me on “Politics & Power” to break down these issues before the court in its pivotal term.
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