It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. We'll have NYU Professor Melissa Murray

on the show later this hour on the first week of the new Supreme Court term, as they are already making waves. For example, did you hear that the court declined to get involved in the issue of emergency abortions in Texas? The Biden administration wanted the court to review the Texas restrictions in light of federal rules, guaranteeing access to abortions in an emergency,

the headline in the New Republic on this story, Supreme Court decides to let Texas women die.

Today they'll hear the so-called ghost guns case that asks, when is a gun, not a gun?

Like if you buy a kit to assemble a cabinet from IKEA, is it not a cabinet?

And tomorrow, the court will hear a death row appeal by an Oklahoma man named Richard Glossop.

Get this.

The state itself, the Republican Attorney General, now wants to postpone the execution based on new evidence that Glossop didn't get a fair trial.

They want him to have a new trial.

But Oklahoma's highest court says he has to be executed anyway.

What?

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear that case tomorrow and we'll get into it with Melissa Murray coming up.

And the really interesting brief filed last week by special counsel Jack Smith and the

Donald Trump 2020 election interference case, now that the Supreme Court has given Trump

immunity for any official act as president, Smith is arguing point by point that much of what Trump did to block the certification of the election was done as a candidate, that is a private citizen, not in his role as president. So we'll invite Melissa Murray to explain how, and you can see where you think the line is when a president

does something that could be illegal.

How do they determine if that president is doing it in his official capacity as president

or as a private citizen?

We will also today have our climate story of the week, which we're doing every Tuesday all this

year today with Hurricane Milton approaching many of the same areas so devastated by Helene,

but with Milton said to be even stronger, we'll look at the evidence that these monster

storms are a function of the climate, not just the weather, and why places that are hundreds of miles inland

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