Trump DOJ expected to undo Biden’s stance on Supreme Court cases

President-elect Donald Trump‘s incoming Justice Department is likely to reverse the Biden administration‘s positions in several key Supreme Court cases, from transgender issues and firearm regulations to abortion access, flavored vaping products, and immigration policies.

Once every four to eight years, an incoming president has the opportunity to alter his predecessor’s legal positions in cases pending before the federal courts that have not been decided. Although these legal 180s are not uncommon, they could affect major decisions on the horizon.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Justice Elena Kagan, reflecting on her time as former President Barack Obama’s solicitor general, described such reversals as “a really big deal that people should hesitate a long time over.” Yet the Biden administration’s DOJ was quick to reverse several of the Trump administration’s legal positions in early 2021, and the previous Trump presidency did the same for many of Obama’s legal positions.