The Supreme Court is concluding one of its most significant terms in recent years, with decisions affecting voting rights, presidential authority, immigration, gun rights, LGBTQ rights, campaign finance, and the power of federal agencies.
Major Rulings the Court Has Issued
- Voting Rights – It weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, making it harder to challenge racially discriminatory election maps.
- Tariffs – It struck down President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose broad tariffs, ruling that Congress, not the president, has authority over tariffs.
- LGBTQ “Conversion” – The Court rejected Colorado’s ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors on free-speech grounds.
- Gun Rights – The Court limited the government’s ability to prosecute some marijuana users for possessing firearms.
US Supreme Court Major Decisions Still Pending
- Birthright Citizenship – Whether President Trump can restrict automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S.
- Temporary Protected Status (TPS) – Whether protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants can be revoked.
- Federal Reserve Independence – Whether the president can remove a Federal Reserve governor before their term expires.
- Federal Trade Commission – Whether presidents have broader power to fire leaders of independent federal agencies.
- Mail-In Ballots – Whether states may count ballots received after Election Day if postmarked on time.
- Asylum Processing – Whether the government can turn away asylum seekers when border crossings exceed capacity.
- Campaign Finance – Whether limits on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates are constitutional.
- Transgender Athletes – Whether states can prohibit transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports.
- Hawaii Gun Law – Whether states can require property owners to give explicit permission before firearms are carried on their premises.
- Geofence Warrants – Whether police use of cellphone location data near crime scenes violates privacy protections.
- Human Rights Lawsuits – Whether U.S. courts can hear claims involving alleged human rights abuses committed abroad.
- Religious Rights in Prison – Whether a Rastafarian inmate can seek damages after prison officials cut his hair in violation of his faith.
The overarching question running through this term is: How much power should presidents, federal agencies, states, and courts have, and where should constitutional limits be drawn?
Many of the pending rulings are expected before the Court adjourns at the end of June, and could shape American law and politics for years to come.
Summarized from “Factbox-Top cases on the US Supreme Court’s docket,” Reuters, June 18, 2026.