Two justices control Trump’s fate at Supreme Court
by Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld - 04/09/25 8:00 AM ET
The Supreme Court has handed President Trump a mix of wins and losses when it comes to legal challenges to his exhaustive second-term agenda, with two of the justices holding all the cards.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett are emerging as the key to Trump’s success as a pileup of applications land at the justices’ feet.
Though the two justices often vote together, their alliance has come into greater focus as the high court’s emergency docket becomes the place where Trump’s agenda lives or dies.
When the three liberal justices persuade both Roberts and Barrett to join them, the administration loses. That’s what happened when the court declined the administration’s bid to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid payments.
But Roberts and Barrett haven’t always been consistent on whether they join the conservative majority or side with the court’s liberal dissenters in Trump cases.
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