Counting Down the Supreme Court Term

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🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French look at what’s left on the docket from this term before diving into a little Los Angeles mayoral politics. The Agenda: –Supreme Court bingo –Do Rastafarians get religious exemptions? –The mighty small-dollar donor – United States v. Hemani –Wolford v. Lopez –Appearance of election corruption –No, a GOP candidate did not have a chance to become mayor of Los Angeles –Birthright citizenship case –Trump v. Cook: an explainer –Banning trans athletes from girls’ sports Show Notes: –Evangelicals for Mitt Order Sarah’s book here. Advisory Opinions is a production of SCOTUSblog and The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. Click here to sign up for our new Advisory Opinions newsletter, and click here to access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready? I was born ready.
0:03.6	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And today, we're going to review some of the top cases that are left from OT-25.
0:30.6	Guns, religious liberty, campaign finance reform, transgender athletes, and all of the executive power cases.
0:39.0	We're going to touch on all of them, give you a little update so that you know what we're
0:42.8	expecting for the rest of the month.
0:45.1	Coming up on advisory opinions.
0:48.8	There are those who have the edge with 5G plus on EE and others, not so much.
0:56.0	Those who can download a kids film while boarding a plane or those who can't.
1:01.0	Those who book the only taxi nearby or those that are like...
1:05.0	We're going to have to walk, Sarah.
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1:21.0	Well, David, it's that time of year. We're in June. The opinions are coming down like so many fragrant flowers. I'll be honest,
1:30.4	I think this is our last podcast where we're not playing ketchup. So I want to like put in the work now
1:36.2	to talk a little bit about the cases that are remaining and to explain to listeners who may be
1:41.7	new to the podcast or new to SCOTus Blog what Supreme Court bingo is.
1:47.0	So if you go to scotusblog.com and at the very top, you'll see a little pulldown called statistics.
1:53.6	And if you hit term statistics, you will see October term 2025.
1:59.0	Remember, OT 2025, October term. That refers to when the term started. So
2:03.6	2025 runs 25 through basically the end of June 2026, although again, technically, it actually
2:10.2	runs October to October. You will see if you go to that page that there are about a little
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