""This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist," Jackson wrote. "Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.""
""we are in for one of the most polarizing terms yet," said Irv Gornstein, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University's law school."
The Supreme Court opens a consequential term with major cases on presidential power, voting, and LGBTQ rights. The conservative majority has shown preliminary receptivity to many of President Trump's aggressive assertions of authority. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized a funding-cut decision using a Calvin and Hobbes analogy after a $783 million research funding reduction. The court will scrutinize high-stakes issues including the legality of broad tariffs imposed under emergency powers and proposed restrictions on birthright citizenship. Lower courts have already split on the tariff authority, with states and small businesses arguing against unilateral executive taxation powers.
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