The Supreme Court and President Donald Trump are headed for a reckoning.

After months of terse emergency rulings that largely avoided major confrontations with the new administration, the justices will open their new term Monday faced with the need to render full, final verdicts on policies at the core of Trump’s presidency.

“It really is going to be a showdown,” said Jennifer Nou, a law professor at the University of Chicago. “So many of the president’s big-ticket constitutional issues and policy initiatives are quickly coming up before the court. All of this is coming to a head.”

Already on the docket is a case challenging the legality of most of the tariffs at the heart of Trump’s economic policy and another dealing with his aggressive push to exert greater control over independent a

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