Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast.

This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

This week's special episode features a panel discussion held last week between Manhattan Institute scholars

Ilya Shapiro and Jim Copeland, along with Nick Rosengrant, who's a professor of law at Georgetown,

and moderated by Judge Stephen Vaden of the Court of International Trade.

The panel discussed prospects for the 2024-25 Supreme Court term, which is now underway.

Following a tumultuous year in which the Supreme Court addressed the Second Amendment,

presidential immunity, social media regulation, and Chevron deference.

The justices are returning to the bench to hear more major cases. Those include a Texas law

requiring age verification to access certain websites, Tennessee restrictions on pediatric

gender care, and Facebook's alleged securities fraud for misusing

personal data. We hope you enjoy. Good evening and welcome to this year's Supreme Court preview.

I'm Rihun Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, and I am especially pleased to welcome our

friends from the Federalist Society of New York, co-sponsor of tonight's conversation.

At the Manhattan Institute, we work to move American public life in the direction of

personal responsibility, colorblind meritocracy, and the rule of law.

The challenges we work on, from the scourge of anti-Semitism to public disorder to the excesses of the

administrative state, inevitably have a legal dimension. In an age of deep political division,

more and more of our policy debates are being settled in the federal courts, and this coming

term will be no exception. That is why we're so fortunate to be home to Jim Copeland and Ilya

Shapiro, two of the nation's most

accomplished legal minds who are actively shaping federal jurisprudence through their scholarship,

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