⚖️ Supreme Court Accountability | March 25, 2026
Supreme Court Accountability, March 25: Mail voting rights hang in the balance, Catholic bishops challenge Trump's birthright citizenship order, and 2,000 tariff refund lawsuits escalate.
🏛️ What’s Happening Right Now at the Supreme Court
This week’s Supreme Court accountability news makes one thing terrifyingly clear: the attack on democracy is coordinated, and it is accelerating. The Court heard arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case that could strip mail ballot grace periods from up to 29 states and suppress millions of votes just months before the November midterms — with the Republican National Committee and Trump’s Justice Department aligned against the voters. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed a moral thunderbolt of an amicus brief urging the Court to strike down Trump’s executive order eliminating birthright citizenship, calling the order an affront to human dignity ahead of April 1 oral arguments. And following the Court’s landmark 6-3 ruling striking down Trump’s illegal global tariffs, over 2,000 companies have sued to reclaim billions in illegally collected duties — while the Trump administration fights to stall those refunds. These are not separate battles. Each one is a test of whether courts will hold the line — and People Power United is here to make sure accountability doesn’t blink.
Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait
💥 Your Power in Action: What You Can Do Today
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🏛️What’s Happening Right Now at the Supreme Court
🗳️ Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Eliminate Mail Ballot Grace Periods Across 29 States
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case that could end the practice of counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day in as many as 29 states. The Republican National Committee and Trump’s Justice Department — aligned against Mississippi’s own Republican attorney general — argue that federal Election Day statutes bar states from counting ballots postmarked by Election Day but received days later. A ruling against grace periods could upend election rules in states like California, Texas, and Alaska just months before November’s midterms, affecting millions of voters who depend on mail ballots, including military and overseas voters. (New York Times)
Why It Matters for Democracy: Mail voting accounted for 30% of all votes cast in the 2024 election — it is a lifeline for working people, seniors, rural communities, and deployed service members. The Trump administration has been explicit: it wants Election Day, in-person voting only. This case is step one of dismantling that access. The Federalist Society-aligned justices who built careers on “states’ rights” are being asked to override state election law on behalf of a president who has never accepted elections he couldn’t control. If the Court rules broadly, it opens the door to gutting early voting altogether. That is not judicial principle — that is judicial capture.
⛪ Catholic Bishops File a Searing Moral Rebuke to Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Before April 1 Arguments
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — which has supported conservative positions at the Court for decades — filed an extraordinary amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s executive order eliminating birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. The brief argues, in both constitutional and faith-based terms, that the order “would undermine both the legal and moral foundations of American society” by punishing children for their parents’ immigration status. With oral arguments set for April 1, the brief carries particular weight: a majority of the sitting justices are Catholic, and the conference is speaking directly to their own faith tradition. (Slate)
Why It Matters for Democracy: Birthright citizenship is a constitutional principle enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment specifically to prevent a government from declaring that some people born on American soil are less than citizens. Trump’s executive order does exactly that — and renders some children stateless. That the Catholic Bishops are calling this order “antithetical to the Church’s teachings” and a denial of the “God-given dignity of all persons” should make every justice pause. The Court must answer a simple moral question on April 1: do some children matter less? People Power United believes the answer is no — and we’ll be watching.
💸 2,000 Tariff Lawsuits and Counting — Companies Demand Refunds as Trump Stalls
In the weeks since the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down Trump’s sweeping global tariffs as an illegal use of emergency powers, more than 2,000 companies have filed suits demanding refunds of billions in illegally collected duties. Household names — FedEx, Dyson, Dollar General, L’Oreal, Skechers, Brooks Brothers — joined the wave of litigation before the U.S. Court of International Trade, while the Trump administration asked courts for a four-month delay before addressing the refund question. A federal appeals court rejected that delay and ordered the litigation to proceed immediately. (Bloomberg)
Why It Matters for Democracy: The Supreme Court’s tariff ruling was a rare moment of institutional spine — a 6-3 decision that included Trump-appointed justices telling the president that executive power has limits. What followed reveals how this administration treats accountability: stall, obstruct, and make every legal victory as slow and expensive as possible for the people who paid the price. That is how authoritarian governments behave. Courts held firm once. They must hold firm again. And the 2,000 companies in court right now are proof that accountability has a pulse — when organized people and institutions demand it.
⚖️ WHY THESE STORIES MATTER
The attack on democracy is not random — it is a strategy. Eliminate mail voting before a midterm where the polling is bad. Strip birthright citizenship before a court can stop you. Collect illegal tariffs, then stall the refund fight long enough to make the victory meaningless. Every story this week follows the same logic: move fast, impose maximum harm, and force courts and people to spend their energy recovering what never should have been taken. Justice Jackson’s victory on TPS last week proved that dissent and organized pressure work. This week’s stories prove the work never stops.
The 40-year Federalist Society pipeline was built for exactly this moment: a Court ideologically aligned enough that an administration can test what it can get away with, case by case, ruling by ruling. The mail voting case, the birthright citizenship case, the tariff refund fight — these are a coordinated probe of how far this Court will let executive power expand. The answer is still being written. That answer is shaped by movements like People Power United — by every petition delivered to Congress, every voter registered, every person who shows up and refuses to let accountability become optional. Reform is not coming from the top. It is being built from below — by us. Keep going.
🔷 The Path Forward — and Your Role In It
⚖️ How We Restore Accountability and Demand Supreme Court Reform
A Supreme Court without accountability doesn’t just fail the people — it actively transfers power from the many to the few.
This is why expanding the Court, establishing 18-year term limits, and adopting a binding ethics code with real enforcement aren’t radical demands. They are the minimum conditions for a judiciary that can legitimately claim equal justice under law.
Expand the Court to restore balance
Set term limits to end lifetime partisanship
Adopt a binding ethics code with real enforcement
Reform isn’t radical — it’s necessary.
Take Action: Tell Your Member of Congress: Expand the Supreme Court to protect our voting and civil rights, create term limits, and institute a code of ethics
Justice belongs to the people.
Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.
Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United
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