Donald Trump · Deep dive

The Legal Record

15matters

Supreme Court dockets naming him. Ten of them name the office, not the man.

Every matter, by posture, never aggregated. This dive covers the matters in which he is a named party on the Supreme Court’s own docket — the one court whose complete record is public and free to read, and therefore the one that can be reported here in full rather than in part. Fifteen matters, each with the disposition the Court entered in its own words. It keeps no score, and it is not a survey of his litigation.

Six of six — the base set is complete

Every subject at this tier is asked the same six questions, fixed before the subject is chosen so the set cannot be picked to suit an argument. The others written for this record are Private Money, The Output, Reach, Affiliations and Standing. With this one the base set is complete, so the overlay dives — the ones specific to what this subject has been — are unblocked. None of them could have been started before now.

Back to the full record.

Supreme Court matters naming him

Where the Court entered a judgment or ruled on an application

in his own name

Caption names him without the office

as President

Caption names the office

scored as wins or losses

This page reports dispositions and computes no tally

courts below this one covered

Supreme Court dockets only — most of any record is elsewhere

Scope first

One court, and not the others

A page called “The Legal Record” invites the assumption that it covers everything. This one does not, and the boundary is the first thing on it rather than a footnote at the end.

What is here

Matters in which he is a named party on the Supreme Court’s docket, where the Court issued a judgment or ruled on an application.

Why only this court

The Supreme Court publishes its complete docket, free and in full. Courts below it sit behind paid or account-gated systems, so their records cannot be reported here in full — and a partial legal record is worse than a bounded one, because the gaps are invisible. This dive takes the court it can cover completely.

How each matter is sorted

The Court’s caption decides which list a matter belongs on. Where it names him alone, the matter is his. Where it names him as President of the United States, the matter belongs to the office and would have arrived whoever held it.

This page does not keep score

Every matter above shows the disposition the Court entered, quoted from the docket. None is labelled a win or a loss, and no total is computed. Reading a disposition that way requires knowing what each side asked for and how much of it they got — a vacatur can favour either party, an affirmance depends entirely on who petitioned, and a remand often settles nothing. A tally would look authoritative and be an opinion. The dockets are linked so the record can be read directly.

Dockets read 2026-08-09. A remanded matter is still running, and any change in posture will be corrected here visibly and dated. This dive belongs to the record it sits inside. The Court itself is the subject of The Supreme Court, which is upstream of this page wherever the two touch.