Justices' Reactions to Lower Courts and Norms of Explanation

The New Yorker contributing writer Jeannie Suk Gersen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the Supreme Court’s new term and the cases that could test the boundaries of executive authority and separation of powers. They talk about challenges to Presidential power under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, disputes over voting rights and racial gerrymandering, and a First Amendment fight over state bans on conversion therapy. They also consider the Court’s increasing reliance on its emergency docket and what John Roberts’s twenty years as Chief Justice reveals about the conservative legal movement’s influence on the Court.

This week’s reading:

• “Harvard’s Mixed Victory,” by Jeannie Suk Gersen
• “Is Donald Trump’s Sweeping Gaza Peace Plan Really Viable?,” by Robin Wright
• “Why Democrats Shut Down the Government,” by Jon Allsop
• “Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?,” by Jon Lee Anderson
• “The Age of Enshittification,” by Kyle Chayka

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