From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, June 18th.

It is crunch time for the Supreme Court of the United States. June marks the end of their term, and roughly a third

of the major cases before the justices remain to be decided. That's usually the case around

this time of year. And as we do every year, we're keeping a close eye on the cases that usually

drop at 10 o'clock in the morning as the show begins. So we are doing that this year as well,

and we will bring you major decision analysis on the very day that they drop. Usually they come

on Thursdays, but because this Thursday is Juneteenth, decisions were released to the public

this morning, and the court has added an additional day on Friday.

So this morning, the court issued its ruling on the case regarding whether a Tennessee law

that prohibits certain gender transition medical care for minors violates the equal protection

clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. It was a 6-3 decision.

The court decided it does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to bar that

care. The decision clears the way for the Tennessee law and 23 other states with similar

laws by implication to prohibit gender transition care for minors.

With us now to talk about that and more is Kate Shaw,

Professor at the University of Pennsylvania,

Carrie Law School, co-host of the Supreme Court-oriented podcast, strict scrutiny,

and a contributing opinion writer with the New York Times.

Professor Shaw, welcome back to WNYC. Thank you for speed reading this decision and coming

right on with us.

Happy to do it, Brian. Thank you.

So this is based on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Maybe it's worth

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