Description: The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the country’s President when it decided to limit the birthright citizenship law and overruled independent judges from several counties in the US. The Supreme Court, by overruling local federal courts, extends the President’s powers and limits federal legislative bodies from intervening around Trump’s executive orders. SCOTUS also decided to reverse the decision from the federal courts on banning transgender people to join the military and also allowed Trump to continue with its mass deportation policies which controversially left many people in no man’s land on their immigration status. Legal experts have warned that the display of political capital within the American justice system has clouded the role of the Supreme Court and positioned it to serve the ruling Republican party.
Impact: The decisions brought forward by the Supreme Court effectively put pressure on the US Congress where President Trump’s Republican political backing also hold significant amount of political power. The interconnectivity between the legal and political systems in the US has enabled Donald Trump and by extension the Republican party to establish a powerful monopoly through the weight the President’s executive orders bring. Trump managed to sway SCOTUS towards a more conservative outlook on legislature and is slowly infiltrating other legal branches which have been integral towards questioning or halting the President’s decisions. The situation highlights the underlying effects of the monopolization of power in the US where currently, Donald Trump has managed to position himself above all legal statutes and institutions. The decisions could cause significant civil upheaval, causing a reprisal of the anti – immigration protests with expanded dimensions which would practically cause enlarged internal destabilization in the US.