About this episode

The episode reviews the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the past term with legal experts.

Live from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., Sarah Isgur and David French review the OT25 term with Akhil Amar, professor of law and political science at Yale University, and David Lat, author of Original Jurisdiction. The four break down the most consequential cases of the past term—from the tariffs case to Humphrey’s Executor, birthright citizenship, and what it all means for President Trump’s relationship with the court. The Agenda: –Thank you to the ACLU for sponsoring our SCOTUSblog Summit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center –Getting deep into trucking Twitter –How the culture war is shifting toward separation-of-powers fights –Counting jelly beans and winning heifers –The demise of Humphrey’s Executor in Slaughter –Did Trump win or lose this term? –What even makes a “big” case? –Previewing OT26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Sarah Isgur, David French

Guests: Akhil Amar, David Lat

Topics covered

• Supreme Court
• legal analysis
• politics
• birthright citizenship
• separation of powers
• Trump and the court

Keywords

• Supreme Court
• OT25 term
• Humphrey’s Executor
• tariffs case
• birthright citizenship
• Trump
• culture war
• separation of powers

Sponsors

ACLU

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SCOTUSblog

Books & works: Original Jurisdiction

Places: Washington, D.C.

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