Trump's most recent victory came this week, when the high court ruled that the White House can move forward with eviscerating the U.S. Department of Education, part of Trump's pledge to slash the federal government and give states more control of education policy. In an unsigned decision, the court's conservative majority lifted a federal judge's order that kept the White House from firing 1,400 workers at the agency. The three liberals on the court dissented. Trump called it a "big win."
He's had more than a few.
A few days earlier, the court cleared the way for potentially tens of thousands of layoffs from a bevy of federal agencies, including the Commerce and State departments.
Trump also scored a major victory last month when the court limited the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions blocking administration policies, which greatly scaled back the ability of individual federal courts to hold governmental power in check. (Although some judges are finding workarounds.)
The justices have also given Trump a fairly free hand when it comes to aggressive immigration enforcement, particularly in the administration's efforts to deport migrants to what it calls third countries other than their own and revoking temporary protected status for Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans to allow for expedited removal from the U.S.
The president's culture-war efforts are being advanced as well. In late June, the court held that parents must be given an opportunity to opt their children out of reviewing educational material that they object to on religious grounds. The case out of Maryland involved storybooks that featured LGBTQ characters. The court also allowed Trump's ban on transgender troops in the U.S. military to go forward.
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