SCOTUS Filters Trump: Tariffs, Trans Teens & 2nd Amendments Sweat

The Supreme Court's October term looks like the conservative version of a Trump greatest hits album, featuring chart-topping tracks like 'Firing Federal Trade Commissioners' (Rebecca Slaughter got kicked from the FTC last month), plus the 'Tariff Tango' which Trump claims would literally 'destroy the United States' if struck down (thanks to some court rulings in August and May that said, 'Nope, you overstepped, sir'). Meanwhile, Fed governor Lisa Cook got a stay of execution. On the sidelines, the court will also get its hands dirty with trans athletes banned from West Virginia high schools (pre-Trump 2.0 drama) and conversion therapy fights in Colorado because free speech apparently means discussing magic cures. JD Vance's campaign finance case might rewrite political coordination rules — because why not? Lastly, a Hawaiian gun law challenge bringing the 'can’t bring guns to the playground' debate into the Supreme Court playground, plus a somber death penalty case clarifying whether executing intellectually disabled inmates is still off-limits after the 2002 Eighth Amendment ruling. It’s the legal mixtape no one asked for, but everyone’s getting.

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Mockingbird News

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The Supreme Court's next season is peak Trump: firing commissioners like bad interns, blocking guns at the beach but maybe not that Fed governor, and banning trans kids from sports because logic took a long vacation.

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Watching SCOTUS handle Trump’s executive power feels like watching someone try to fix a blender with a screwdriver and a sledgehammer—inelegant, loud, and inevitably a mess.

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If the Supreme Court docket were a party, Trump showed up uninvited, started firing people, banned some snacks, and now wants to decide who can bring water.

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