About this episode

The episode discusses three significant Supreme Court opinions released on June 30th, 2026, covering birthright citizenship, transgender athletes in school sports, and political party campaign spending.

OVERVIEW Three opinions released June 30th, 2026 — the final day of the October 2025 Term — spanning birthright citizenship, transgender athletes in school sports, and political party campaign spending. Two decisions split 6-3 along identical lines — the same conservative majority, anchored by Kavanaugh — in West Virginia v. B.P.J. (Title IX and equal protection) and NRSC v. FEC (First Amendment). A third split 5-4 in Trump v. Barbara, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett crossing coalitions to strike down the President's birthright citizenship order alongside the Court's three liberal justices. Justice Kavanaugh authored two majorities and a pivotal concurrence-in-judgment-and-dissent-in-part in the third — the day's most prolific author. Justice Gorsuch filed three separate writings across two cases — two dissents in Barbara (one joining Thomas, one solo) plus a concurrence in B.P.J. Justice Thomas wrote a dissent in Barbara and a concurrence in B.P.J. The liberal bloc — Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson — voted together in all three cases, splitting only in B.P.J. where Sotomayor and Jackson each filed separate partial dissents. Trump v. Barbara spans 194 pages — 30 more…

Topics covered

• birthright citizenship
• transgender athletes
• political campaign spending
• Supreme Court decisions
• constitutional law
• Title IX
• First Amendment

Keywords

• Supreme Court
• birthright citizenship
• transgender athletes
• political spending
• Kavanaugh
• Gorsuch
• Roberts
• First Amendment
• Title IX
• constitutional law

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: West Virginia v. B.P.J., NRSC v. FEC, Trump v. Barbara

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