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The Brian Lehrer Show

Elie Mystal on This Week at the Supreme Court

The Brian Lehrer Show

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022), now in paperback, talks about some of this week's Supreme Court opinions, and what's left for the final week of the term.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Lara Show on WNBC, good morning again everyone.

0:14.1

Well, the Supreme Court is working its way through the remaining cases argued this term.

0:19.6

They released four opinions between yesterday and today or each of yesterday and today.

0:25.4

None of them were in the big cases that everybody's anticipating like on affirmative action

0:30.6

or student loans.

0:31.6

They'll be back at it.

0:32.6

On Tuesday, we are told, perhaps with those, but let's talk about what we do know from

0:37.4

this week's opinions and indulge in some speculation about what's holding up.

0:42.3

The remaining opinions, the one the press, the ones the press has been focusing on.

0:46.9

We have our June Court watcher back, Ellie Mastal just to correspond in for the nation and

0:52.3

author of the book, allow me to retort a black guy's guide to the constitution now out

0:57.2

and paper back.

0:58.2

Hey, Ellie, welcome back to the show.

1:00.6

Eight opinions and two days, Brian, I'm going to need like a new glasses prescription because

1:04.4

this is a lot of works.

1:07.2

So the one that everybody seems to be focusing on out of the eight is one that came down this

1:12.4

morning, reviving as the New York Times headline puts it, Biden immigration guidelines.

1:19.5

What happened?

1:20.5

Yeah, so let me just set the scene for how stupid the Texas lawsuit was, right?

1:25.1

The Biden administration said that we simply cannot possibly have the manpower to deport

1:30.8

every single undocumented immigrant living in this country.

1:36.2

We just can't, we don't have the resources, right?

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