Another Momentous Term for the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The last Supreme Court term was a blockbuster. The justices made a number of landmark rulings, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. The new term could be just as testing, with a series of deeply divisive cases on the docket. Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tevernice and this is The Daily.
0:07.0	In its last term, the Supreme Court decided a series of monumental cases from abortion to
0:19.6	gun rights.
0:21.0	They set the country on a more conservative course.
0:24.0	Today, as the court begins its newest term, I spoke with my colleague Adam Liptak about
0:30.0	why this next series of rulings may prove just as momentous.
0:38.3	It's Tuesday, October 4.
0:43.8	So Adam, the last time we had you on the show was the end of the Supreme Court's term this
0:49.6	past spring.
0:51.4	Which was, you know, a better than I do, shall we say, action-packed.
0:56.2	So just to remind people, we had blockbuster after blockbuster on climate, religion, guns.
1:03.6	And then we had this leaked draft opinion of the road decision, which had never happened
1:09.0	before in the history of the court.
1:11.0	And then the court overturned Roe.
1:13.9	So it was kind of one big thing after another.
1:16.9	And that was the last term.
1:18.4	Yeah, the term ended with a series of bangs and none of them bigger than doing away with
1:24.1	an almost 50-year-old precedent that had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion.
1:30.3	Right.
1:31.3	So it's the first day of the new term.
1:34.6	How was it?
1:35.7	And what was it like in the courtroom?
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