Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. is navigating a fraught path, legal analysts say, trying to avert a direct confrontation between the Trump administration and a Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that has steadily expanded presidential power — but not without limits.
The stakes are as high as at any time in Roberts’s 20-year tenure. He is committed to protecting the independence of the courts to “check the excesses of Congress or the executive,” as he said recently, amid attacks by President Donald Trump and his allies on federal judges, including the justices.
Since Trump returned to the White House, the Supreme Court has granted him most, but not all, of what he asked for in emergency requests. The justices have allowed the administration for now to bar transgender troops from the military, fire independent agency leaders without cause, halt teacher grants and remove protections for as many as 350,000 Venezuelans. On Friday, the court cleared the way for Trump to revoke legal status for more than 530,000 migrants while litigation continues.
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