AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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In 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts promised judges would be umpires, calling balls and strikes.
This term, the umpire called some obvious fouls. Then he stood aside while one team repainted the field lines mid-game.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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Trump v. Barbara, June 30. A baby born here is an American. No executive order changes that.
Learning Resources v. Trump, Feb. 20. Congress holds the taxing power, not the Oval Office.
Watson v. RNC. Ballots postmarked by Election Day count, including ballots from deployed troops.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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Trump v. Slaughter, June 29. The Court overruled Humphrey's Executor, the 1935 precedent that shielded independent agencies from presidential removal.
Roughly two dozen agencies now serve at the pleasure of one man: the FTC, NLRB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Merit Systems Protection Board.
These agencies police price gouging, protect union elections, and recall unsafe products.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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Trump v. Cook, June 29, decided 5 to 4. Fed Governor Lisa Cook keeps her seat while her case proceeds. The Court carved out a single exception to fire-at-will.
The agency that steadies Wall Street got a wall. The agencies that guard your paycheck, your union, and your product safety got nothing.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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April 2026, decided 6 to 3. To challenge a district map under the Voting Rights Act, you must now show a strong inference the state intended to discriminate.
Congress removed the intent standard in 1982 because intent hides in caucus rooms. Now it is back.
A federal panel with two Trump appointees found Alabama drew its map to discriminate against Black voters. The Court let Alabama use the map anyway.
She called the ruling "a demolition of the Voting Rights Act." Not an erosion. A demolition.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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Collected without legal authority, per Tax Foundation estimates.
Filed within one week of the tariff ruling.
Trump imposed a replacement 10 percent tariff within hours of losing. States sued again immediately. Fed independence held, for now, which is the one guardrail markets still trust.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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- Redrawn Southern maps can decide the House before a single vote is cast.
- Several legislatures are already redrawing districts Black voters spent decades winning.
- The mail ballot win is real, but Trump is pushing Congress to strip it through the SAVE America Act.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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A stolen election announces itself. A redrawn district just sits there, looking like geography.
The Court told us what it will protect: the president's power and the central bank. The rest is on us.
Know your new district lines before November.
Because it does.
big-sarge.blog, 2026 Election War Room.
AUTHOR: WAYNE INCE
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How the Supreme Court's Trump rulings shape the 2026 midterms, the economy, and the Constitution. A Big Sarge explainer from big-sarge.blog.