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PBS News Hour - Segments

Analyzing the consequential Supreme Court term and its ideological divide

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The Supreme Court wrapped up oral arguments and has now turned to rolling out decisions in some of the most consequential cases of the year. Those decisions will shape policies nationwide on divisive issues like homelessness and reproductive rights, and some of them could affect the presidential election. John Yang discussed more with NewsHour Supreme Court analyst Marcia Coyle and Joan Biskupic. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The Supreme Court wrapped up oral arguments last week and has now turned to

0:04.4

ruling out decisions. As John Yang explains, they could be some of the most

0:08.1

consequential cases of the year. John...

0:11.0

I'm going to some of those decisions will shape policies nationwide on such divisive issues like

0:15.9

homelessness and reproductive rights and some of them could even affect the presidential election.

0:21.2

The passion surrounding these issues were reflected in protests

0:24.5

outside the court on oral argument days. Now inside the court, the justices

0:28.8

are spending the next two months or so searching for agreement among at least five of them in the 43 cases that remain

0:35.5

undecided. Watching all of this are two Supreme Court analysts. The news hour is Marsha Coil and

0:40.5

Joan Biscubic of CNN author of Nine Black Robes.

0:44.0

Joan, Marsha, thanks for being here.

0:46.0

Marsha, 61 oral arguments this session.

0:50.0

Was there any common theme or thread running through them?

0:53.0

Well, John, I think there were a number of themes,

0:55.0

but I'd step back for a moment and take a look at the court a little bit

0:59.0

and say that this appears, especially this term, to be a very confident court willing to step into some of the most divisive issues,

1:08.5

maybe even eager by some of them to take on these questions and we see it in the arguments that we

1:15.2

listen to everything from EPA's good neighbor plan for the Clean Air Act to abortion to, of course, what may very well define the term,

1:29.0

Trump's litigation.

1:30.0

Talk about those. There were, what, four cases involving the former president?

1:35.0

Four total and three that most people will know about.

1:36.8

You know, Donald Trump has loomed over the Supreme Court from the start.

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