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Hi there.

Welcome to Sundays with Siegel.

I've got constitutional law professor Eric Siegel, friend of mine, friend of yours, friend of the show, joining me.

We caught up on Friday afternoon, and I'm getting it up finally here on Sunday morning for you to listen to.

Great conversation, as always with Eric.

We haven't talked to in a few weeks.

Obviously, we're talking about the Supreme Court term that ended this past Friday, which was

several wins for him and the MAGA movement, and arguably a nightmare for the most abreast of us,

and also the MAGA movement in the long term, I'd argue.

Culmated in the six to three

ruling, largely eliminating the main tool that his opponents, i.e. us, activists, Democrats,

humans have to thwart his aggressive agenda. So it was a tough term. We knew it was going to be.

It's not a shock. If you were paying attention to it,

would have been if any of these cases or many of these cases were decided in ways that surprise us.

But in this final case and others, the justices, according to New York Times, used truncated

procedures on their emergency docket to issue decisions that gave our dear leader some or all of what he'd asked for in cases

dealing with immigration, transgender troops, and the independence of government agencies.

The emergency rulings in his favor were theoretically temporary and provisional.

In practice, they allowed the president to pursue his policies indefinitely and sometimes

irreversibly.

That's the way the big piece

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