A string of recent events — from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to President Trump's deployment of troops to U.S. cities — has scholars worried that history is at risk of repeating itself.

But a handful now may be poised for review by the Supreme Court, or are getting close to it.The cases involve major policies enacted by Mr. Trump in the months since he returned to the White House, and several of them have already been before the high court,

They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rulings.

The Supreme Court declined to take up a request from South Carolina seeking to enforce its ban on students using public school bathrooms that match their gender identity.

The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgender athletes.

The Supreme Court has declined South Carolina’s request for an emergency order allowing the state to enforce a law aimed at barring transgender students in state-funded schools from using bathrooms of their choice.

South Carolina conditions funding on a school's compliance with a rule prohibiting transgender students from using the facilities that align with their gender identity.

Lawyers for groups challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze billions of dollars in foreign-aid funding on Friday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by […]