The Ultimate 2025 Supreme Court Wrap Up: Presidential Power, Checks and Balances, and More

Join us for our last webinar of the year which is not to be missed.  Hear from Constitutional law expert, Dean Erwin Chermerinsky, as he discusses the cases from 2024-2025 Supreme Court term that affect presidential authority and the balance of power among the three branches of government.  During last term, in a sweeping series of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court granted all 15 of DOJ’s emergency applications. The Supreme Court's emergency rulings have allowed the President to rapidly reshape key federal institutions without full judicial review. By granting stays and lifting injunctions—often without explanation—the court has enabled the President to fire civil servants, restructure or eliminate agencies like the Department of Education and enforce controversial immigration policies. There was also a dramatic increase in the Supreme Court's "shadow docket" (or emergency docket), rising from 44 in the 2023-24 term to 113 by July 2025, a substantial jump in just one year. The lack of explanation and…