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Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst

President Trump’s tug-of-war with the courts, explained

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a big win on June 27, 2025, by limiting the ability of judges to block Trump administration policies across the nation.

But Trump has not fared nearly as well in the lower courts, where he has lost a series of cases through different levels of the federal court system. On June 5, a single judge temporarily stopped the administration from preventing Harvard University from enrolling international students.

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