The Supreme Court’s decisions are expected to loom large for the citizenry and the body alike as a number of cases on the docket could determine “whether the court remains a stabilizing force.”
In recent years, the highest court in the land has proven its impact with decisions pertaining to states’ rights, constitutional amendments, and, perhaps the most consequential of them all, the overturning of Roe v. Wade via the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
With months to go before the current Supreme Court term comes to a close, Manhattan Institute Director of Constitutional Studies Ilya Shapiro contended in an op-ed for Fox News that a number of specific cases yet to be heard “could define America for decades to come.”
“Taken together, the Supreme Court’s upcoming work reflects a federal judiciary charged with resolving the hardest questions of our constitutional order. Whether it’s climate lawfare, women’s sports, gun rights, or citizenship itself, the justices are being asked to draw lines that the political branches have blurred or abandoned,” wrote Shapiro. “How they respond will determine not just the outcomes of individual cases, but whether the court remains a stabilizing force in an era of institutional strain.”
Arguably chief among them, the court had docketed Trump v. Barbara in September 2025 and was expected to hear the case this winter on whether or not President Donald Trump’s executive order clarifying the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment stands in eliminating birthright citizenship for children of tourists and illegal aliens.
Similarly, where it concerns executive authority, the jurists are slated to hear arguments in Trump v. Cook on January 21 to determine whether or not the chief executive holds the authority to terminate a governor of the Federal Reserve.
In August, Trump fired Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook “for cause” after a criminal referral from the Federal Housing Finance Agency alleged she’d committed mortgage fraud.
Where it concerns “commonsense,” the cases of West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox are set to be heard on January 13 regarding laws in West Virginia and Idaho to protect girls’ and women’s sports from gender ideology.
“The Constitution doesn’t require states to ignore reality,” wrote Shapiro, “and Title IX doesn’t mandate the elimination of women’s sports as a distinct category. The court should say so plainly — and resist efforts to constitutionalize a social experiment that an overwhelming majority of Americans firmly reject.”
Where it concerns the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court is due to hear arguments for Wolford v. Lopez on January 20 regarding Hawaii’s attempt to prohibit concealed carry on publicly accessible, private-owned property without the owner’s consent.
Additionally, on January 12, the court will hear arguments in Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish to decide whether energy companies in Louisiana can move suits from parishes over oil-and-gas activity to federal court.
“Local governments, backed by well-funded activist groups, have pursued environmental claims designed not to remedy concrete harms, but to use sympathetic state courts to impose sweeping policy change,” detailed Shapiro. “Allowing such suits to proceed in venues hostile to manufacturers and producers invites inconsistent legal standards and massive verdicts untethered from federal policy. A ruling from Chevron wouldn’t immunize companies from accountability; it would prevent state courts from becoming shadow regulators of national energy policy.”
These arguments come after the court was already reviewing cases on presidential power and elections heard in the fall.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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