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Deadline Legal Blog-The Roberts Court spent its summer vacation helping Donald Trump
In recent months, the Republican-appointed high court majority has further empowered the Republican administration on firings, immigration and more.
The shameless justices of the Supreme Court spent their summer vacation protecting Donald Trump.
— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-10-01T19:36:29.975Z
The Roberts Court spent its summer vacation helping Donald Trump www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-trump-shadow-docket-republican-majority-rcna234697
When the justices take the bench next week to start their new term, they’ll be fresh off a string of significant shadow docket decisions — often made with little or no explanation from the majority that has largely backed the administration in President Donald Trump’s second term.
Dismantling due process
The court kicked things off in early July, with an order backing the administration’s rapid effort to deport noncitizens to countries to which they have no ties. The court did so over a dissent authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which accused the majority of giving short shrift to due process while sending a signal that “the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.”
The administration would continue to call on the court over the summer, and the court would answer.....
Dismantling the Fourth Amendment
Backing the government’s roving immigration patrols, the majority freed officials from having to comply with a lower court order that had blocked them from overly relying on racial profiling to make stops in Los Angeles.
Writing again for the Democratic-appointed minority, Sotomayor observed that the Fourth Amendment’s historical protections from arbitrary government interference “may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little.” She called the majority’s move “unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation’s constitutional guarantees.”
Dismantling due process
The court kicked things off in early July, with an order backing the administration’s rapid effort to deport noncitizens to countries to which they have no ties. The court did so over a dissent authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which accused the majority of giving short shrift to due process while sending a signal that “the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.”
The administration would continue to call on the court over the summer, and the court would answer.....
Dismantling the Fourth Amendment
Backing the government’s roving immigration patrols, the majority freed officials from having to comply with a lower court order that had blocked them from overly relying on racial profiling to make stops in Los Angeles.
Writing again for the Democratic-appointed minority, Sotomayor observed that the Fourth Amendment’s historical protections from arbitrary government interference “may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little.” She called the majority’s move “unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation’s constitutional guarantees.”
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