A Court Turns Right, a Prosecutor Gets a Call, and the GOP Fractures
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The Supreme Court issued four six-to-three rulings Tuesday, and taken together they trace a coherent ideological agenda. The decisions expanded corporate liability protections, curtailed the ability to bring human rights litigation in federal courts, weakened protections for green card holders, and limited inmates' access to sue for civil rights violations. Each ruling has defenders who can argue it on individual legal grounds; all four arriving on the same day, in the same direction, signals something more systematic about how the current Court majority understands its role.
The green card ruling carries particular weight for the roughly thirteen million legal permanent residents in the United States. The Court let stand a policy allowing border agents to strip green card holders of their status based on unproven charges — meaning legal permanent residents can have their status revoked without a criminal conviction, based solely on administrative determination, without due process in the traditional sense.
A DOJ memo reported by Bloomberg Law, authored by Stephen Miller, argued that states are no longer obligated to provide community-based care for disabled people, directly challenging the Supreme Court's 1999 Olmstead decision, which held that institutionalizing disabled people who could function in community settings constitutes discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Combined with the Court's ruling limiting inmate civil rights lawsuits, the effect is a coordinated narrowing of civil rights litigation pathways across multiple categories of vulnerable people.
Trump simultaneously admitted publicly — not through a leak, but in his own words — that he called a U.S. attorney to intervene in Steve Hilton's California gubernatorial primary. A president claiming credit for directing federal prosecutors toward a specific political outcome is a direct challenge to Justice Department independence norms dating to the post-Watergate reforms. The fact that Trump volunteered this information suggests either that he does not view it as problematic or that he regards the norm itself as worth challenging in public.
The Republican coalition showed visible strain. Marjorie Taylor Greene formally broke with the GOP, joining Tucker Carlson in a rupture that, if it represents the beginning of an organized political realignment rather than individual grievances, carries real consequences for Republican majorities heading into 2028. The Pew Research numbers provide international context: twenty-three percent global confidence in Trump's leadership across thirty-six nations surveyed, with half of respondents in those countries now calling the United States an unreliable partner. Not a single surveyed nation viewed Trump more favorably than a year ago.