With at least 250 lawsuits filed against President Donald Trump in the first 100 days of the Administration — averaging about three lawsuits per business day — it is a challenge to keep up with them all.
Trump has secured a series of recent victories in the courts. Here are some of them:
- A federal appeals court reinstated Trump’s authority to impose tariffs on foreign goods. The decision temporarily allows for a 10% universal tariff on most imports and a 30% tariff specifically targeting Chinese goods. A lower trade court had blocked the tariffs, saying that they exceeded presidential authority, but the appeals court granted a pause on that ruling pending further review.
- The US Supreme Court ruled the president may remove the heads of independent federal agencies without cause, such as the National Labor Relations Board.
- The Supreme Court also upheld Trump’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans, reversing a previous court order that blocked the policy. The ruling affects approximately 350,000 Venezuelan nationals in the country.
- The Supreme Court sided with Trump in a dispute over federal staffing authority, allowing the termination of 16,000 probationary federal employees. The lower court had previously halted the firings.
No other administration has faced a comparable volume of lawsuits in such a short period. For example, the Obama Administration faced 12 nationwide injunctions over eight years, and President Joe Biden had 14 injunctions over four years, while Trump’s second term has seen 20–30 injunctions in his first 130 days in office.
