Trump Accumulates Wins on Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket—Key Takeaways

The justices have halted lower court blocks on multiple aspects of the president’s agenda.
Trump Accumulates Wins on Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket—Key Takeaways
(L–R) Supreme Court Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and former Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy talk with President Donald Trump as he arrives to address a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on March 4, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
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President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda has been met with order after order from lower courts temporarily blocking him. Many of those have been lifted by the Supreme Court, handing Trump several wins and raising questions about how lower courts have been handling his cases.

These decisions have mostly come on what’s known as the “emergency” or “shadow docket,” a set of more urgent appeals that the Supreme Court often decides without oral argument.

Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent
Sam Dorman is a Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for The Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at @EpochofDorman.
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