The United States recorded its highest number of executions since 2009 in 2025, with 47 people executed across 11 states, as the Supreme Court denied every request to delay an execution during a nationwide surge in death penalty cases.
The SCOTUSblog article highlights the constitutional and human consequences of contemporary immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, drawing parallels to the 1842 Supreme Court case of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, which left Black people in free states unprotected from abduction and violence.
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the date of review on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship to Dec. 5, 2025, with multiple federal lawsuits having temporarily blocked the order from being enforced.