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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 27th, 2014, the Get Your Hands Off My Cell Phone Officer Edition.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. I'm in New York. Today, the Supreme Court rules in just about every case you can imagine, including over cell phone privacy, presidential appointments, television, abortion clinics,

you name it, they ruled.

Then, black Democrats saved an old white Republican senator from Mississippi.

Is that a good thing?

Bad thing.

And we'll also talk about whether Rand Paul is a liberal.

We're scattered to the winds this week.

Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson is guarding GabFest Gold Base in Washington, D.C. Hello, John. Hi, David. And Emily Bazelon, Slate, senior editor protects the vulnerable left flank of New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hello. I'm in New York, which is cool, although it's sad for us to be not together.

All right.

It's Supreme Court decision time, several weeks of the year when the justices actually work.

This week, the court ruled in something like a billion different cases.

They, again, upheld the right of the EPA to do some form of greenhouse gas regulation. They

sided with TV networks against the tech startup area around TV signals and what form you can

intercept them. They abolished buffer zones around abortion clinics in Massachusetts. And in the two

cases that we're really going to focus on, they upheld the

nominal power of the president to make recess appointments, but got rid of his actual power to do it

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