WATCH LIVE: Justices Kagan and Coney Barrett testify on Supreme Court budget in House hearing

By — Mark Sherman, Associated Press Mark Sherman, Associated Press By — Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-justices-kagan-and-coney-barrett-testify-on-supreme-court-budget-in-house-hearing Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter WATCH LIVE: Justices Kagan and Coney Barrett testify on Supreme Court budget in House hearing Politics Jul 13, 2026 5:26 PM EDT Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are testifying Tuesday on the high court's 2027 budget before a House Appropriations subcommittee. The hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. EDT on July 14. Watch in live in the player above. President Donald Trump didn't get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year: tariffs, birthright citizenship and the attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. WATCH: Trump's response to the landmark Supreme Court rulings and what's next But he also emerged from the term with even greater power. Educate your inbox Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. His immigration crackdown was largely upheld, his call to redistrict for partisan advantage marched ahead and his ability to control federal regulatory agencies expanded dramatically when the court overturned a 90-year-old precedent. The court's conservative majority also seemed willing to look past Trump's invocation of racial tropes and boundary-pushing moves as it handed down decisions in line with its own conception of a powerful presidency. The conservative majority seems fully behind the unitary executive theory The court's ruling in June gave the president effective control over independent regulatory agencies by allowing him to fire their leaders at will. Several federal laws, some more than 100 years old, sought to protect agency independence by requiring the president to identify a cause, like negligence, before firing the leaders. The court struck down those provisions as unconstitutional limits on presidential power. The decision could give the president the ability to reshape agencies Congress created to operate independently of the executive branch. It also could be a threat to the federal workforce, well below top executives, that has been covered by the civil service system, if future decisions allow the president to fire lower-level workers. One agency that still appears beyond Trump's reach is the Federal Reserve. Though many experts have said there is no principled distinction, the court ruled Monday that the Fed's leadership can't be fired at will. It said Cook can remain in her job while she challenges efforts to oust her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she denies. The Voting Rights Act has been hollowed out It was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement: the 1965 federal law that finally opened the ballot box to