Trump DOJ expected to reverse Biden’s stance on Supreme Court cases
By
Kaelan Deese
December 31, 2024 6:00 am
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s incoming Justice Department is likely to reverse the Biden administration‘s positions in several key Supreme Court cases, from transgender issues and firearm regulations to abortion access, flavored vaping products, and immigration policies.
Once every four or eight years, an incoming president has the opportunity to alter his predecessor’s legal positions in cases pending before the federal courts that have not been decided. Although these legal 180s are not uncommon, they could affect major decisions on the horizon.
Justice Elena Kagan, reflecting on her time as former President Barack Obama’s solicitor general, described such reversals as “a really big deal that people should hesitate a long time over.” Yet the Biden administration’s DOJ was quick to reverse several of the Trump administration’s legal positions in early 2021, and the previous Trump presidency did the same for many of Obama’s legal positions.
Trump’s own appellate lawyer, D. John Sauer, who handled his criminal cases during the campaign, is preparing to take on the new role of solicitor general and will likely follow a similar pattern of reversing legal stances held by the Biden administration.
Last month, Thomas Wolf at the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the next Trump administration could reverse the government’s position in at least half a dozen cases, in line with the Biden administration’s track record of legal U-turns. While such changes would be unsurprising, their impact could reshape significant areas of law, including cases pending before the high court and ones that could be granted for review in the near future.
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