New SCOTUS Term Tests Limits of Trump’s Power: The Brief

THE NEW US Supreme Court term that kicks off Monday will determine how far the conservative-supermajority court is willing to go to accommodate President Donald Trump as he seeks to assert power over broad swaths of the US government and policies from citizenship to tariffs, Greg Stohr reports.

• With a Republican-controlled Congress showing little interest in resisting Trump, any constitutional guardrails will have to come from a court that, under Chief Justice John Roberts’ leadership for the past 20 years, has expanded White House power. It was Roberts who authored Trump’s most far-reaching victory: the 2024 decision that gave presidents ...