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The Supreme Court<\/a> on Tuesday is set to hand down its final opinions<\/a> in cases argued this term, with three big matters left: birthright citizenship, campaign finance and bans on transgender athletes.<\/p>\n

Announcements<\/a> in the trio of closely watched issues will cap a high court term that has already featured several significant rulings on  tariffs<\/a>, voting rights<\/a>, immigration<\/a>and more.<\/p>\n

The Republican-appointed court majority, which includes three justices appointed by Trump, has broadly empowered<\/a> the president in his second term in office but hasn’t always sided with him. Monday’s 5-4 ruling on mail-in ballots<\/a>authored by Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett, was one of the latest examples.<\/p>\n

The president himself has said<\/a> he expects the birthright citizenship case to join his short list of big losses, but as always, we won’t know the answer until the opinion comes. Here’s a recap of the cases in which we expect rulings when the justices take the bench Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When Trump returned to the White House last year, he signed an executive order<\/a>that purports to end automatic citizenship for babies born in this country. The order hasn’t taken effect because it’s “blatantly unconstitutional<\/a>,” as one of the several judges who ruled against Trump in the lower courts observed.<\/p>\n

Now, the Supreme Court must decide whether to maintain the status quo or to green-light one of the president’s most lawless moves yet. <\/p>\n

Campaign finance in NRSC v. FEC<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The court is considering whether to loosen campaign finance restrictions further, in a GOP challenge<\/a>to limits on political parties’ coordination with candidates on campaign spending. The case was brought by Vice President JD Vance<\/a>when he was a Senate candidate, along with national senatorial and congressional committees of the Republican Party and former Ohio GOP Rep. Steve Chabot.<\/p>\n

Their appeal questions the precedent that upheld those limits in 2001<\/a>by a 5-4 vote. They called<\/a>it a “5-4 aberration” that was “plainly wrong the day it was decided.” The only justice still on the court from that 2001 case is Clarence Thomas<\/a>who dissented at the time. The current majority is more aligned with his view.<\/p>\n

Transgender athletes in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The court is also set to rule on whether states can ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s and girls’ sports. There are two separate cases<\/a>, regarding bans in Idaho and West Virginia, respectively. The court seemed likely<\/a>to rule against the athletes on the issue that affects similar laws in more than half the states<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n

Last term, the majority upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the Skrmetti case<\/a>. Earlier this term, the majority sided with California parents<\/a>who were against school policies to prevent outing transgender students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,” a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MS NOW, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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