The U.S. Supreme Court will decide a series of important cases during its current nine-month term involving issues such as presidential powers, tariffs, transgender athletes, guns, race, campaign finance law,

In May, the Court of International Trade, based in New York, said Trump did not have the authority to impose tariffs and “the US Constitution grants Congress exclusive authority to regulate commerce”. That decision was upheld by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, in August.

Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the current US Supreme Court has become one of the most partisan in American history. This judicial devotion to party could not come at a more dangerous time, as President Donald Trump endeavors to amass more power for the ...

The Supreme Court considering Trump's tariffs marks the first major test of his agressive assertion of presidential powers before the high court.

Few cases arrive at the Supreme Court with a set of facts and a legal question more tailor-made for a conservative 6-3 majority that has in recent years consistently backed religious claims.