5 takeaways from Supreme Court’s big rulings on immigration, guns 

The Supreme Court left President Trump and gun rights advocates celebrating Thursday.

In a series of 6-3 decisions, the high court ticked off some of its anticipated remaining cases as the justices move closer to their summer recess.

But their rulings didn’t come without friction on the bench. 

Here are five takeaways.

Trump’s appointees help deliver him significant wins on immigration

Leading the day were a pair of big immigration decisions that both favored Trump.

Each came down along the court’s familiar ideological lines, with the president’s own appointees providing some of the crucial votes.

The first allows Trump to proceed with a key plank of his second-term deportation crackdown by cutting off legal protections for Haitians and Syrians.

Most immediately, it means that roughly 330,000 Haitians and nearly 4,000 Syrians enrolled in temporary protected status (TPS) could be deported if they don’t have other lawful status. But it’s set to have a ripple impact beyond just those two countries. The Trump administration has sought to terminate TPS for 13 and counting of the 17 countries designated for the program. 

All six conservative justices agreed that judges had no authority to hear most of the challengers’ claims in the first place, ruling that the law establishing TPS bars judicial review.

It left the White House calling the decision a “tremendous win.”

Trump’s Supreme Court appointees on Thursday also gave him the green light on another immigration policy. 

In this case, Trump has yet to try the point of leverage in his second term. But he’s long wanted the legal right to do so.

The case concerns “metering,” which began in the Obama administration. It allows border officials to turn back migrants before they physically cross the border, preventing them from making an asylum claim. The court agreed 6-3 that the policy complies with federal law.

Trump’s streak on immigration at the Supreme Court may not last. The justices still have yet to rule on whether his birthright citizenship order can stand. Many court watchers and the president himself have predicted that he will lose that case.

Alito has big day with 3 opinions

It was a busy morning for Justice Samuel Alito.

The third most senior conservative justice authored three of the four majority........

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