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Supreme Court term will tackle executive power, executive power and executive power

OCTOBER 6, 2025 5:00 AM ET
HEARD ON MORNING EDITION
Nina Totenberg


The U.S. Supreme Court's term, which begins Monday, will mostly focus on the president's powers.
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The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term Monday, which promises to be hugely consequential and focused in large part on how much power the Constitution gives to the president.

Among the issues already on the court's docket: a case that could end what's left of the landmark Voting Rights Act; a case that could do away with one of the few remaining laws that limits campaign fundraising; a challenge to the Trump tariffs; a challenge to his firing of independent agency commissioners before their fixed terms are completed; and much much more.

Indeed, coming soon is likely to be the unanswered question from last term: Did President Trump exceed his authority when he issued an executive order barring a constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship for every child born in the United States.

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