Svmuu News: U.S. courts have issued four rulings so far today, two of which favored the Donald Trump camp and two of which went against the Donald Trump camp.
1. The U.S. Supreme Court, by a narrow majority, upheld state laws prohibiting transgender girls and women from representing their schools in girls’ sports, siding with conservatives and President Donald Trump on this controversial culture war issue. Donald Trump called it a “major victory” on social media.
2. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned long-standing federal restrictions on coordinated spending by political parties and candidates, a ruling that is likely to benefit the Republican Party in the November midterm elections. Donald Trump called it “a major victory for the Republican Party” on social media.
3. A U.S. district judge in Rhode Island struck down the Donald Trump administration’s changes to a widely used federal housing assistance program, ruling that the administration failed to consider the impact of the changes on families relying on that assistance. The ruling is a victory for more than a dozen states governed primarily by Democrats.
4. In a split-decision ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump the president’s proposed restrictions on “birthright citizenship,” thereby overturning a central tenet of his immigration policy agenda. (Jin Shi)