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Trump administration had worst Supreme Court docket report since a minimum of FDR years, research says

By Debra Cassens Weiss

January 4, 2024, 8:39 am CST

The U.S. Supreme Court docket is dominated by six conservative justices, together with three appointed by former President Donald Trump.

However the Supreme Court docket underneath the management of Chief Justice John Roberts “has not been significantly receptive” to Trump’s arguments, exhibiting that there’s some fact in his declare that the justices “like to rule in opposition to me,” the New York Occasions reviews in a Dec. 21 story.

Certainly, the New York Occasions says, the Trump administration’s Supreme Court docket report is worst than another administration since a minimum of the presidency of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The New York Occasions factors to knowledge from Lee Epstein and Rebecca L. Brown, professors on the College of Southern California Gould Faculty of Legislation, who wrote about their findings for Presidential Research Quarterly in June 2023.

“Our research of voting knowledge from Supreme Court docket phrases 1937-2021 exhibits that the Roberts Court docket is essentially the most ‘anti-president’ courtroom in that interval,” they wrote in an summary of their article.

The typical win price for presidents over that interval was 65.2%. Trump fared the worst, with a win price of 43.5%, adopted by former President Barack Obama, who had a win price of 52.4%, and President Joe Biden, who had a win price of 56.5% via the courtroom’s 2021 time period.

The win charges are based mostly on orally argued circumstances that implicated presidential energy, together with circumstances by which a celebration was the USA, an govt division or a division head, an unbiased company or the president.

Low presidential win charges earlier than the Roberts Court docket partly replicate the courtroom’s disdain for the executive state, as some commentators have recommended, based on Epstein and Brown. However knowledge additionally displays Roberts Court docket rulings in opposition to a president in high-stakes disputes, they stated.

To judge high-stakes disputes, the researchers checked out a subset of circumstances centered on presidential overreach that seem in constitutional regulation textbooks, together with circumstances that made the entrance web page of the New York Occasions the day after issuance.

The presidential win price was solely 35% in high-stakes circumstances earlier than the Roberts Court docket, the bottom win price for high-stakes circumstances for the reason that 1937 time period.

Partisanship might also play a task, Epstein and Brown concluded. The presidential win price earlier than justices appointed by that president was 58% in high-stakes case earlier than the Roberts Court docket, in comparison with 36% earlier than Roberts Court docket justices not appointed by a president.

In an e mail to the New York Occasions, Epstein and Brown stated they’ll’t say whether or not Trump’s poor efficiency “speaks to the courtroom’s view of him and his administration or to the justices’ rising willingness to examine govt authority.”

“Both means, although, the info counsel a bumpy street for Trump in circumstances implicating presidential energy,” they wrote within the e mail.

The New York Occasions factors outs that a number of Trump circumstances “are on the courtroom or on its threshold,” together with circumstances on immunity from prosecution, the viability of an election-interference cost, and whether or not Colorado can bar Trump from the poll.

On Wednesday, Trump requested the Supreme Court docket to shortly rule within the Colorado case and “return the suitable to vote for his or her candidate of option to the voters,” the Washington Submit reviews.