It's Brian Lair show on WNYC Good morning everyone and welcome to Thursday June 15th.

Thursdays are decision days for the Supreme Court this month and the decisions are usually

released at 10 a.m. so we're watching the Supreme Court feed and we'll let you know if any

big decisions come down.

Remember among the cases the country is holding its breath on are the high stakes areas

of President Biden's student loan forgiveness program constitutional or unconstitutional

the way he's doing it.

Can partisan state legislatures impose politically gerrymandered election districts with no oversight

by the courts?

That one's got huge implications for disenfranchising whole communities of voters and even for partisan

legislatures to potentially impose something like Trump's stolen election lie like Trump

tried to have some state legislatures do with no review by the courts.

The courts were key in defending against that in 2020.

There's another big affirmative action in college admissions case.

One on whether a website making company can refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples

here we go on that again on the basis of artistic freedom which is their claim this time

more than religious liberty and more so we will see if this is a Supreme Court decision

day for any of the cases we're watching.

But as we keep one eye on the SCOTUS feed we will bring on CNN legal analyst Ellie

Honig because there was also so much other big legal news right now to try to make sense

of.

There's the Trump classified documents case of course and Republicans in Congress investigating

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