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Professor Josh Blackman joins the program again, our legal expert, aka Mr. Smarty Pants.

We have had a busy Supreme Court session with some important rulings as it affects the Trump

administration's ability to do their job, and hence, this country,

and you.

Professor, let's start with the Trump v. Kassa, Inc.

case or Kasa, Inc. regarding whether district courts can simply decide in anywhere America,

you know what, Trump can't do that. That ended up at the Supreme

Court in an expedited fashion. Talk about that case if you would. This is probably the most

important case from last year. It involved Trump's birthright citizenship order, where Trump said

that we will not give any sort of citizenship papers to children of illegal aliens.

But the court didn't decide whether that order itself was lawful.

And so they decided kind of a procedural issue.

That is, how can it be challenged in court?

Moments after Trump signed the order, judges in Washington and in the Northeast issue these universal injunctions that basically applied to everyone everywhere.

So even though Texas hadn't challenged the policy, children of aliens in Texas would still be protected by it.

That's not how things were supposed to work.

So we have a six or three decision.

Justice Barrett wrote the majority, and the court held that, no, you can't issue these

injunctions, but we won't talk about whether Trump's order is legal.

We'll do that later.

That was the upshot.

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