Chief Justice Says Constitution Remains ‘Firm And Unshaken’ With Major Supreme Court Rulings Ahead | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts mentioned Wednesday that the Constitution stays a sturdy pillar for the nation, a message that comes after a tumultuous 12 months within the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court choices on the horizon.

Roberts mentioned the nation’s founding paperwork stay “firm and unshaken,” a reference to a century-old quote from President Calvin Coolidge. “True then; true now,” Roberts wrote in his annual letter to the judiciary.

The letter comes after a 12 months during which authorized students and Democrats raised fears of a doable constitutional disaster as Republican President Donald Trump’s supporters pushed again in opposition to rulings that slowed his far-reaching conservative agenda.

Roberts weighed in at one level in March, issuing a uncommon rebuke after Trump referred to as for the impeachment of a choose who had dominated in opposition to him in a case over the deportation of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members.

The chief justice’s Wednesday letter was largely targeted on the nation’s historical past, together with an early Nineteenth-century case establishing the precept that Congress shouldn’t take away judges over contentious rulings.

He additionally referred to as on judges to “continue to decide the cases before us according to our oath, doing equal right to the poor and to the rich, and performing all of our duties faithfully and impartially under the Constitution and laws of the United States.”

While the Trump administration confronted pushback within the decrease courts, it has scored a sequence of some two dozen wins on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. The courtroom’s conservative majority has allowed Trump to maneuver forward for now with banning transgender individuals from the army, clawing again billions of {dollars} of congressionally authorized federal spending, transferring aggressively on immigration and firing the Senate-confirmed leaders of unbiased federal businesses.

The courtroom additionally handed Trump a number of defeats over the past 12 months, together with in his push to deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities.

Other pivotal points are forward for the excessive courtroom in 2026, together with arguments over Trump’s push to finish birthright citizenship and a ruling on whether or not he can unilaterally impose tariffs on a whole lot of nations.

Roberts’ letter contained few references to these points. It opened with a historical past of the seminal 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense,” written by Thomas Paine, a “recent immigrant to Britain’s North American colonies,” and closed with Coolidge’s encouragement to “turn for solace” to the Constitution and Declaration of Independence “amid all the welter of partisan politics.”