Did Trump win his lawsuits against the government in 2023 and 2024
Executive summary
Donald Trump did not secure a broad, definitive legal victory against the federal government in 2023–2024; key immunity and dismissal fights largely failed to stop civil cases from proceeding and criminal proceedings were paused or appealed rather than dismissed outright [1]. He did, however, win specific high-profile procedural rulings — most notably a U.S. Supreme Court decision in March 2024 that allowed him to remain on the Colorado ballot — a narrow but politically consequential outcome amid a wider pattern of mixed results tracked by multiple outlets [2] [3].
1. Majority of major immunity and dismissal bids were rejected or left unresolved
Several of Trump’s central legal strategies in 2023 and 2024 — especially claims of presidential immunity or requests to toss cases — did not produce final victories: federal judges denied requests to dismiss civil suits in early 2023 and the appeals court rejected his immunity arguments later that year, leaving those cases to proceed when he declined to take them to the Supreme Court by a February 2024 deadline [1]. In criminal proceedings tied to January 6, judges paused deadlines in December 2023 to let appellate courts resolve immunity questions, a procedural stay rather than a substantive win for Trump . Those rulings mean the legal fights continued rather than being decisively won by the former president [1].
2. The Supreme Court’s ballot ruling was a clear, targeted victory
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 4, 2024, that Trump could remain on Colorado’s ballot, a direct reversal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 2023 disqualification decision and a concrete win for his campaign’s immediate interests [2]. This is one of the clearest favorable outcomes in that period, but it was narrow in scope — focused on ballot access — and did not erase other pending civil or criminal matters [2].
3. Courts frequently blocked or stayed administration actions and tracked litigation shows mixed results
Across 2023 and 2024, federal courts issued injunctions, blocks, or other adverse rulings against government actions tied to Trump’s administration or his policy moves, and multiple media trackers catalogued numerous suits and judicial setbacks during that period; reporting emphasizes that courts “have agreed to block the president” in multiple cases and that dozens of suits were active [3] [4] [5]. That body of litigation demonstrates a pattern of contested authority and many interim judicial defeats rather than a singular, comprehensive legal triumph for Trump against the government [3] [4].
4. Some high-dollar civil suits were filed by Trump but outcomes in 2023–24 were limited or postdated
Trump filed large civil suits against media outlets, banks, and — in later reporting — against government agencies over leaked tax returns, yet these filings (including billion- and multi-billion-dollar claims) largely reflect aggressive litigation strategies rather than proven legal victories in 2023–24; for example, the leak-related litigation centers on a contractor’s guilty plea and sentence but the multibillion-dollar civil cases were newly filed and their outcomes were not resolved in that interval [6] [7] [8] [9]. Reporting shows filings and criminal sentences for the leaker, but not final civil-judgment wins for Trump against the government during 2023–24 [8] [9].
5. Conclusion: mixed, mostly procedural outcomes, not a sweeping win
The record for 2023–2024 is mixed: isolated procedural or tactical victories such as the Supreme Court ballot decision existed alongside key losses or failures to secure dismissal, unresolved immunity claims, and ongoing appeals that kept major suits alive [2] [1]. Public trackers and news outlets mapped hundreds of active cases and many judicial checks on Trump-era actions, underscoring that the period produced contested, incremental results rather than a clear, across-the-board legal triumph against the federal government [4] [5] [3].