President Donald Trump celebrated two Supreme Court rulings on Tuesday that upheld state laws barring biological males from competing in women’s sports and struck down restrictions on coordinated campaign spending between political parties and candidates, calling the decisions major victories.
The court issued a 6-3 decision upholding Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act. The majority held that the laws do not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concluded that Title IX permits schools to separate athletic competition based on biological sex.
“BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS,” Trump said of the decision. “Wow! That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!”
The cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., challenged state laws restricting participation in women’s sports based on biological sex. The Idaho case centered on whether the state’s law violated the Equal Protection Clause, while the West Virginia case questioned whether the state’s law conflicted with Title IX.
The justices also sided with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, concluding that federal limits on coordinated expenditures violate the First Amendment. The ruling continues the court’s long-running trend of expanding constitutional protections for political spending.
“The Supreme Court just took restrictions off political spending! A BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS and, more importantly, The First Amendment!” Trump wrote on Truth Social following the campaign finance ruling.
“In short, constitutional text, history, and precedent establish that the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits violate the First Amendment,” Kavanaugh wrote in his majority opinion. “Importantly, by holding FECA’s political-party coordinated-expenditure restrictions unconstitutional, the Court’s decision today treats all political parties equally.”
The rulings capped a mixed stretch for Trump at the high court.
Trump’s bruising day at the Supreme Court
Despite the two wins, the court overturned Trump’s first-day executive order limiting birthright citizenship, serving a major blow.
On Monday, the justices declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the $5 million civil judgment that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving the verdict intact. The court also issued a close 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee, upholding a Mississippi law allowing mail ballots received after Election Day to be counted if they were mailed on time. Later Monday, the court ruled 5-4 that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook could remain in office, declining to allow Trump to remove her for cause.