Trump floods Supreme Court with 13 new problems in unprecedented legal blitz

President Donald Trump is flooding the Supreme Court with a baker's dozen cases in an unprecedented legal blitz, at least according to a recent report.

"The Supreme Court is already confronting President Trump’s agenda this term, but a lot more is still coming," reported The Hill's Zach Schonfeld on Sunday. "The administration is petitioning the justices to take up 13 additional cases, The Hill’s analysis of the court’s docket shows."

He added, "Unlike lower courts, the justices choose which cases they hear. They’re still taking up cases for this term, meaning the battles could be resolved as soon as next year."

Schonfeld continued, "From transgender troops to an asylum ban, from foreign student deportations to horseracing, here’s where the Supreme Court could soon get involved."

The journalist proceeded to describe the asylum ban, transgender troops, foreign student deportations, university grant cuts, u.s attorney firings, nationwide injunctions, immigration bond hearings, horseracing, Idaho land exchange, attorneys' fees and damages against government officials.

Since the commencement of Trump's second term, the Supreme Court has ruled in a number of landmark cases, usually in the president's favor. From constructing the White House ballroom and firing federal officials at will to keeping lists of supposed non-citizens to be barred from voting, the Supreme Court consistently sides with the president — although the administration occasionally loses a case, such as on tariffs or transgender care for inmates. The Supreme Court is led by its conservative wing, which has six members, and has a minority liberal wing with three members. The latter have been frequently critical of the former, especially in recent months.

“Part of the reason why the court got it wrong was a kind of lack of the appropriate concern or understanding of the consequences of their decisions,” Justice Elena Kagan told the Catholic University’s law school in Washington D.C. in October. “I do think in all these areas the court has blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works and has created a democracy that doesn’t work as well as it should.”

By contrast, conservatives like Justice Clarence Thomas argue that the court's current conservative thrust is necessarily responding to a push to the left more than a century ago.

“At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new set of first principles of government was introduced into the American mainstream,” Thomas argued in April. “The proponents of this new set of first principles, most prominently among them the twenty-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, called it progressivism.”