The Supreme Court concluded its 2025-26 term with rulings on Voting Rights Act enforcement and internal disagreements over its interim docket. The Court released its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, 2026, which limited the application of a Voting Rights Act provision barring racial discrimination in voting.

In the two weeks prior to July 6, 2026, the Supreme Court released major rulings on issues that included birthright citizenship, the president's power to fire heads of independent agencies, transgender athletes, and immigration. The Court released its final rulings in argued cases and orders from its "clean-up" conference in late June or early July 2026.

During the summer recess following the 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court addressed requests from the Trump administration on its interim or emergency docket. These requests included permission to reduce the size of the federal workforce, fire three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, terminate nearly $800 million in grants, and conduct immigration stops more freely in the Los Angeles area. Seven of the nine Supreme Court justices wrote separately at least once in an interim docket case involving the Trump administration during that summer recess.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurring opinion in an interim docket case on immigration stops in April 2026. She suggested his opinion misrepresented the impact of immigration stops and stated his perspective came "from a man whose parents were professionals ... [a]nd probably doesn't really know any person who works by the hour." Justice Sotomayor later apologized for her remarks regarding Justice Kavanaugh.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson described conservative colleagues' emergency docket decisions in favor of the Trump administration as "scratch-paper musings" that "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow." She also contended that the court's decision to finalize the Callais ruling sooner than typical had "spawned chaos." Responding to Justice Jackson's rhetoric, Justice Samuel Alito stated in a concurring opinion that it "lacks restraint."

Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion in a case concerning asylum seekers. He stated, "There is much that I would have added to my bench statement had I know there would be a dissent read." The Supreme Court later stated that the exchange between Justice Alito and Justice Sotomayor regarding the asylum seeker dissent resulted from a "misunderstanding on Justice Alito's part."

The Supreme Court also issued follow-up orders clearing the way for Louisiana and Alabama to use new congressional maps. As of July 2026, a dispute involving a student group and a trade association seeking to bar Texas from enforcing the App Store Accountability Act remained pending on the Supreme Court's interim docket. The App Store Accountability Act imposes age-verification and parental-consent requirements on minors' access to apps in Texas. A U.S. district judge temporarily blocked the act from taking effect in December 2025, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit later put that ruling on hold. Students and a trade association contend that the act violates the First Amendment, while Texas argues it serves a substantial state interest that can overcome a First Amendment challenge.

President Trump issued an executive order titled "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections" in March 2026, instructing the USPS to work with states to ensure that only eligible voters cast mail-in ballots. A federal judge in Boston blocked the aspect of the executive order directing USPS coordination on mail-in voting in late June 2026. The Trump administration signaled it will appeal the Boston federal judge's decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.