What this term says about where the Supreme Court is headed
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🗓️ 29 June 2025
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How has this term changed the relationship of the judicial and the executive branches?
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Greg Stohr from Bloomberg about what we've learned about the makeup and direction of the court from this year's rulings.
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| 0:00.0 | This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, |
| 0:05.2 | the separation of powers, and the rule of law. |
| 0:08.6 | On Friday, President Trump hailed a series of rulings, the final decisions of the Supreme |
| 0:12.7 | Court's term, as victories for his administration. |
| 0:15.7 | In recent months, we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president. |
| 0:23.3 | In one of the most high-profile cases of this term, the high court curb the power of federal judges from lower courts |
| 0:29.2 | to issue nationwide injunctions to block a president from enacting executive orders and other policies. |
| 0:34.7 | We can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly |
| 0:39.3 | enjoined on a nationwide basis. |
| 0:42.3 | That decision is closely intertwined with Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. |
| 0:47.4 | But the court did not rule on the merits of that case. |
| 0:50.5 | After the decision, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, one of the lawyers representing the state's suing the Trump administration, expressed her dismay. |
| 0:58.2 | We are deeply disappointed that the court did not decide today that a nationwide injunction is warranted, so that no matter where in the United States a baby is born, that baby will continue to be a citizen. |
| 1:10.1 | She and other state attorneys general admitted that the court's ruling on nationwide |
| 1:13.6 | injunctions was a serious blow, but vowed to continue fighting for birthright citizenship. |
| 1:19.3 | Consider this. A number of Supreme Court decisions handed down this term have expanded |
| 1:23.4 | the power of the presidency while limiting the power of the courts. |
| 1:27.3 | So how has this term changed the relationship of the judicial and the executive branches? |
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