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Okay, here's the show.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. It's a big week at the Supreme Court.

A Monday the Justice is declined to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked the president from ending DACA at least for now.

Then today, the court ruled that legal immigrants who were arrested for minor crimes do not have the right to bond here.

That means they could legally be detained long term.

The court is also hearing arguments in two first amendment cases, one about public sector unions, and another about restrictions on what voters can wear to the polls.

I'm Scott Detreau, I cover Congress for NPR. I'm Dominican Montenegro Political Editor.

And I'm Mara Laisen, National Political Correspondent.

Mara, you missed a fun time in Cleveland.

Oh, I wish I had been there. I hope I get to go on the next one.

Domenico is a lot of fun. We had a nice crowd Friday night.

We did. There was a ton of people there. And all really nice. It was super great to meet all those folks.

Even a couple college kids who drove four hours or so each way to come see us.

Yeah. All right. So a lot from the Supreme Court. And let's just walk through this one at a time.

Let's start with these two separate cases on immigration.

First is the one we've been talking about extensively for months now, or at least the topic that it was focused on, that's DACA.

The third action for childhood arrivals program. March 5th had been the date that dominated that conversation.

That's the date that President Trump set to end DACA when he made the announcement back in September.

Congress had been treating it as a deadline. Then you had two lower courts rule that Trump could not end DACA.

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