After berating the Supreme Court for much of the year — while simultaneously inviting some of the justices over to the White House for dinner — President Donald Trump’s final assessment of the court’s momentous term this week felt something like a ceasefire.
“The Republican Party,” the president posted on social media, “was treated very fairly by the United States Supreme Court.”
The muted appraisal was a remarkable shift from just four months ago, when Trump declared that the justices who voted to shut down his emergency global tariffs were an “embarrassment to their families.” The sudden bonhomie, if it holds, reflects a term in which the 6-3 conservative court, grappling with many of Trump’s policies for the first time, handed the White House big losses, but also a series of substantial wins.
In all, the Supreme Court issued opinions in 58 merits cases, touching on a wide spectrum of American life and deciding who can play on high school soccer fields, who would win the national battle over redistricting and who gets to be a US citizen.
Here are some of the major themes from the Supreme Court’s momentous term.
