Hello, there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

It's the start of July, which means we now have the last of the Supreme Court's decisions

for the term from free speech and voting rights to Obamacare and religious freedom we learned

about where this Supreme Court is going these days.

Are we seeing the court move from a split between conservatives and liberals to a pattern

of decisions in which there are?

Three justice generally aligned to the left, three in the center right and three on a different

part of the right side spectrum.

So joining me today to discuss all this is who else, but Pete Williams, our Justice

correspondent and longtime court watcher.

Pete, welcome sir to the podcast.

My pleasure.

So let's start and let's start sort of large picture here.

This is the first term with Amy Coney Barrett.

It was a six three conservative, the liberal split and yet it didn't feel as dominating

on every issue for the conservatives, perhaps in the way many people anticipated.

What's your take on that?

No, you're absolutely right.

I mean toward the end we saw that six three split in a very harsh way with the rulings

that came at the very end weakening the Voting Rights Act and raising questions about laws

requiring the disclosure of donations to charities which could undercut laws that require donations

to political campaigns.

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