How Did SCOTUS Do This Year? | Hans von Spakovsky
Heritage Explains
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
While there are still several high-profile cases awaiting rulings, the Supreme Court has delivered several wins for the Trump administration, common sense, and all Americans.
So far this term, the Supreme Court issued stays of lower court orders attempting to block the Trump administration from pursuing its agenda, upheld religious freedom and parental rights, and upheld laws protecting kids from dangerous gender treatments. Justices also have stopped lower court judges from rewriting discrimination law and allowing foreign governments to infringe on Americans’ right to bear arms.
Here to talk about what has happened this year and what we might expect to see over the next week is Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky.
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one, zero, all engine run. |
| 0:06.7 | There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely. |
| 0:11.3 | Without a heritage, every generation starts over. |
| 0:14.5 | To remind the current regime. |
| 0:18.7 | We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do. |
| 0:22.3 | All the actual action. |
| 0:25.1 | We need to get back in their box and stay there. |
| 0:28.0 | Lift-off. |
| 0:28.9 | We have a lift-down. |
| 0:31.9 | From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah. This is Heritage Explains. All right, we are live in front of the Supreme Court, where the U.S. Supreme Court has just released its decision on the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. |
| 0:52.3 | You can see the crowd behind me. It's getting wild. It's |
| 0:55.5 | getting loud. There's a lot of energy in this crowd. The culture of death that has just been lifted |
| 1:01.3 | off of our nation. And we are now a culture of life again. And I am just so, we're in the middle of praying |
| 1:08.1 | right when they announced it. So I'm just so grateful to God. |
| 1:12.6 | This month marks the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision. |
| 1:17.6 | It overturned the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, |
| 1:22.6 | which used the right to privacy under the 14th Amendment |
| 1:25.6 | as justification to create a constitutional right to privacy under the 14th Amendment as justification to create a constitutional |
| 1:28.6 | right to abortion. Dobbs fixed that mistake and protected unborn children across the country. |
| 1:36.4 | Now, as ever, the decisions of the Supreme Court reverberate throughout the nation, defining |
| 1:41.3 | the limits of government power and often directing our culture. |
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