Trump Action Archive

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• US Supreme Court accepts appeals to hear transgender student sports ban cases from Idaho and West Virginia — The US Supreme Court announced it will hear appeals from Idaho and West Virginia challenging lower court decisions that struck down state laws banning transgender athletes from female sports teams in public schools. The students who sued argued the bans violate the 14th Amendment's equal protection guarantee and Title IX's prohibition on sex-based discrimination in education. The Court is expected to hear oral arguments during its October 2025 term, marking another major civil rights case involving transgender restrictions.

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• Gun Owners of America filed lawsuit challenging National Firearms Act — Within hours of Trump signing the budget reconciliation bill into law, Gun Owners of America and other pro-gun organizations filed a lawsuit claiming the measure makes the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) unconstitutional. The NFA regulated machine guns and short-barrel guns through taxation and registration requirements. The budget reconciliation bill ended those taxes, and plaintiffs argue this eliminates the constitutional justification for the law. Gun Owners of America stated in a press release that its team had been "working behind the scenes with Congress since the November 2024 election to fully repeal the NFA" and that the new law had positioned their lawsuit against the registry.
• Budget bill eliminates $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled firearms — Trump signed a budget reconciliation bill on July 4, 2025, that eliminated the $200 federal tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, while preserving NFA registration requirements and machine gun restrictions. The provision was drafted by Gun Owners of America and inserted by sympathetic Republican lawmakers including Andrew Clyde, Roger Marshall, Mike Crapo, and Steve Daines.
• Gun Owners of America files lawsuit to overturn National Firearms Act restrictions — Following passage of a budget bill that eliminated the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled rifles (while preserving registration requirements), Gun Owners of America filed a lawsuit on July 4, 2025, seeking to overturn NFA restrictions on suppressors and short-barreled long guns entirely. Within a month, 15 Republican-led states joined as plaintiffs. The Firearms Policy Coalition and NRA filed a similar lawsuit on August 1. The litigation represents an escalation of efforts to dismantle one of America's oldest gun laws, passed in 1934.

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• Supreme Court limits judicial power to block presidential policies nationwide — The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision curbing the power of federal judges to impose nationwide rulings that impede presidential policies, while leaving unresolved the question of whether the president can limit birthright citizenship. The decision, authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, rejected arguments that courts must protect citizens from government overreach. Trump held a White House press conference celebrating the ruling as a "monumental victory for the constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law" and indicated plans to pursue policies on birthright citizenship, sanctuary city funding, and refugee resettlement.
• US Supreme Court rules on nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship case, declines to address constitutionality of Trump's executive order — On Friday, June 28, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case challenging Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. The Court did not rule on whether the president has constitutional authority to end the 14th Amendment right. Instead, it addressed whether individual district court judges can block federal policies nationwide. The Court held that lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions except in narrow circumstances, requiring challengers to pursue class-action litigation instead. The ruling creates a 30-day pause on the executive order's enforcement.
• Supreme Court limits federal judges' power in Trump v. CASA — The Supreme Court decided the case of Trump v. CASA, which limits the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions. President Donald Trump claimed this decision would allow him to end birthright citizenship, asserting that the principle of citizenship for those born in the U.S. is based on a historical myth. This ruling could have significant implications for immigration policy and citizenship rights.
• Trump executive order limiting birthright citizenship challenged in Supreme Court — One day after Trump's inauguration, five pregnant immigrant women, led by an asylum seeker from Venezuela, sued over the president's executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship, fearing their unborn children would be left stateless. The case reached the Supreme Court, which on Friday sided with the Trump administration by restricting the ability of federal judges to block the order in a 6-3 vote. The ruling does not address the constitutionality of the order itself but opens the door for partial enforcement.