President Donald Trump has taken unprecedented steps to reshape the federal government. The Supreme Court likely will let him do it — at least in part.
Supreme Court and policy experts told NOTUS they don’t expect the court to OK all of Trump’s actions, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett most likely to join their liberal counterparts on certain issues. But with about 80 active cases against Trump and other administration officials, experts say it’s likely the court will side with Trump on some cases involving executive power.
“If you place all the various independent agencies under the executive branch’s review, that would be, I think, seriously transformative,” said Josh Blackman, a constitutional law expert and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. “That’s been the law for almost 90 years, that these agencies can operate independent of the president. And I think that that might come to an end.”