By

Ed Kilgore,

political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015

Justice Brett Kavanaugh did the president who appointed him a couple of solids on the last day of the Supreme Court term.

The big headline on the final day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s current term was the Court’s decision (albeit by a narrow majority) to strike down Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order abolishing birthright citizenship. But two other decisions went in Trump’s favor, as he quickly noted on Truth Social: