Hey folks, Joyce Vance here. Preet and I are back with a new episode of The Insider podcast.

First, we discussed the blowback against Attorney General Pam Bondi, following DOJ's disclosure

that Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a client list and wasn't murdered. Next, we turn to a recent

Supreme Court case about parents who didn't want their elementary school children to take part in lessons that include LGBTQ plus storybooks. The justices sided with the parents,

saying they have a right to opt out based on their religious beliefs. Then we break down to

federal judge's ruling that stops President Trump from limiting who can apply for asylum in the U.S.

And finally, a Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for the Trump administration

to deport a group of immigrants to South Sudan, even though they have no connection to the country.

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So these cases in a sense are companion cases because they're both about deportation, but

they're very different. The South Sudan case, this is the issue of whether the United States can send people it's

deporting to a third country, not their country of origin. That's a shadow docket ruling by the

Supreme Court. And then the asylum case is a case where we've just had a ruling from a district

judge about the validity of Trump's effort to claim that there's an invasion on the southern

border to do any number of things, but in this case, to end the United States policy of

offering asylum to people in the country or upon entry.

Talking about the asylum case first, what's really important to keep in mind is a distinction

in the authority that a government and executive

branch or a president may have as between stopping someone from coming into the country,

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