U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court is named in 156 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1803 to 2026.
U.S. Supreme Court on the timeline
156 events · 1803–2026 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | 11th Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy, Deepening 4-Way Circuit Split Toward SCOTUS
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians
5 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders
4 src Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | 24 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones
3 src New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-27 | US Catholic Bishops Call Trump Birthright Citizenship Order "Affront to Catholic Teaching," File SCOTUS Brief
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Supreme Court to Hear Birthright Citizenship Challenge in April
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · American Civil Liberties Union · D. John Sauer | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Presidential Removal Power in Trump v Cook
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · Brett Kavanaugh · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Cook, Justices Skeptical of Presidential Power to Fire Federal Reserve Governors
4 src Donald Trump · Lisa Cook · U.S. Supreme Court · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | Supreme Court Issues Three Unanimous Rulings on Federal Procedures
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Amy Coney Barrett · Samuel Alito | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | Supreme Court Rules 7-2 in Bost v. Illinois That Candidates Have Standing to Challenge Election Rules
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | National Guard Troops Return Home After Supreme Court Blocks Trump Deployment to Chicago, Portland, LA
3 src Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · U.S. Northern Command · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-23 | SCOTUS (6-3, Trump v. Illinois) Blocks Chicago National Guard Federalization; Trump Stands Down From Chicago/LA/Portland, Vows to 'Come Back Stronger'
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Amy Coney Barrett · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-23 | Supreme Court Blocks Trump National Guard Deployment to Chicago, Ruling 'Regular Forces' Means Military
14 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Supreme Court Signals Intent to Overturn 90-Year Precedent Protecting Independent Agency Leaders from Presidential Firing, Expanding Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · John Roberts · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Supreme Court Grants Review of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge, Setting Stage for Constitutional Crisis
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · American Civil Liberties Union · +3 | disputed | |
| 2025-11-07 | Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Full SNAP Payments to 42 Million Americans
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-11-06 | Supreme Court Issues Emergency Stay Allowing Trump Administration to Withhold $4 Billion in SNAP Food Benefits
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell · USDA | reported | |
| 2025-11-05 | Supreme Court Hears Landmark Tariff Case, Justices Express Deep Skepticism of Trump's Emergency Powers
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-29 | Supreme Court to Review Trump's Federalization of National Guard in Chicago, Nationwide Implications
3 src Donald Trump · JB Pritzker · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Supreme Court Reargues Louisiana v. Callais, Threatens Voting Rights Act
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana · American Civil Liberties Union · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | reported | |
| 2025-10-06 | Supreme Court Begins 2025-2026 Term with Focus on Executive Power and Voting Rights
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission'
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap
3 src Heritage Foundation · Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | reported | |
| 2025-09-04 | Trump Administration Petitions Supreme Court for Emergency Review of Tariffs Ruling
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-02 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Commissioner, Gutting Agency Independence
2 src John Roberts · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Federal Circuit Court Rules Trump Tariffs Violated IEEPA, Exceeded Presidential Authority
3 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Supreme Court Emergency Order in Trump v. Boyle
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Supreme Court 6-3 Stay Authorizes Mass Federal Workforce Reductions at 22 Agencies
8 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · American Federation of Government Employees | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Supreme Court lifts injunctions, enables mass firings at 19 federal agencies
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Agencies · General Services Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-27 | Supreme Court Restricts Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA, Expanding Executive Power
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | Trump systematically dismantles post-Watergate institutional safeguards
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | Federal Courts Rule Trump's IEEPA Tariffs Illegal in Multiple Cases
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-18 | Supreme Court Hearing Challenges Presidential National Guard Federalization Powers
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · State Governors · U.S. Department of Defense · New York Attorney General Letitia James · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | Supreme Court Confronts Systemic Emoluments Violations
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Supreme Court Attempts to Mitigate Constitutional Emergency Powers Dispute
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Trump Administration Escalates Judicial Oversight Tensions
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Courts · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability
4 src Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-22 | Supreme Court Continues to Sidestep Definitive Ruling on Presidential Emoluments
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Supreme Court Conducts Unprecedented Hearing on Presidential Emoluments
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | Supreme Court declines to let firing of OSC chief take immediate effect
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hampton Dellinger | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Judges Address Escalating Threats to Judicial Independence
3 src John Roberts · Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Marshals Service | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Supreme Court Confronts Unprecedented National Guard Federalization Crisis
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · State Governors | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management
3 src J.D. Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship
4 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-30 | Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Purge 1,600 Voters Days Before Election Despite Federal Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers
15 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Sackler Immunity in 5-4 Decision, Blocks Bankruptcy Shield
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
12 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Dangerous "Independent State Legislature" Theory in Moore v. Harper
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · North Carolina Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts
4 src ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Supreme Court Dismisses All Trump Emoluments Cases as Moot
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Maryland | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Beyond Federal Court Jurisdiction
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Robert Rucho · Common Cause | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Aggressive "Use It Or Lose It" Voter Purge System
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-21 | Epic Systems v. Lewis: Supreme Court Allows Mandatory Arbitration Blocking Class Action Labor Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Federalist Society · Corporate employers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-26 | Texas Leads 20 Republican States in Lawsuit Seeking to Eliminate Entire ACA
6 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · U.S. Supreme Court · Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-22 | TC Heartland v. Kraft: Supreme Court Limits Patent Forum Shopping, Curbing Eastern District of Texas Troll Haven
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-25 | Supreme Court Rejects King v. Burwell Challenge to ACA Subsidies in Federal Exchanges
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Antonin Scalia | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-25 | Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-19 | Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Supreme Court Restricts Software Patents, Reducing Patent Troll Leverage Over Abstract Business Methods
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican National Committee · Anthony Kennedy · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-25 | ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision
3 src North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation
4 src Sandra Day O'Connor · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican Governors | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Election Commission · Anthony Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-28 | Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Republican National Committee | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company
11 src U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy
3 src Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1989-03-24 | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Triggers Corporate Campaign to Limit Pollution Liability
3 src American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1988-06-29 | Beck Decision Enables Workers to Withhold Union Dues for Political Activity, Weakening Labor Resources
3 src U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1988-06-29 | Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Edwin Meese | confirmed | |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1977-06-23 | Supreme Court Decides GTE Sylvania, First Major Chicago School Antitrust Victory
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Byron White | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight
3 src Warren Burger · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-24 | Supreme Court Rules 8-0 in United States v. Nixon: President Must Surrender Tapes
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Richard Nixon · Leon Jaworski · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality
3 src Lewis Powell · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization
2 src U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo
3 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed |
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Donald Trump
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John Roberts
19× shared
Brett Kavanaugh
12× shared
Ketanji Brown Jackson
12× shared
Trump Administration
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Samuel Alito
11× shared
Sonia Sotomayor
11× shared
Clarence Thomas
10× shared
Department of Justice
9× shared
Neil Gorsuch
9× shared
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
8× shared
Amy Coney Barrett
7× shared
Elena Kagan
7× shared
American Civil Liberties Union
6× shared
Federalist Society
6× shared
D. John Sauer
5× shared
Federal Trade Commission
5× shared
John Marshall
5× shared
Leonard Leo
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Rebecca Slaughter
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Richard Nixon
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Thurgood Marshall
5× shared
William Howard Taft
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Anthony Kennedy
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