Over the coming weeks we will discover if the nine Supreme Court justices – seven raised as Catholics – will try to curb President Trump’s aggressive assertion of executive power

On 6 October the United States Supreme Court will hear the first oral arguments of its 2025-26 term, after a hiatus in which the justices delivered significant victories for Donald Trump’s administration. They included a ruling allowing the president to – for now – remove a member of the supposedly independent Federal Trade Commission and another staying a lower-court judge’s order preventing immigration officers from considering apparent ethnicity among other factors in deciding whether to stop someone on suspicion of being in the country illegally.

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