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Harry Littman. It's the first week in October, but the crisp fall feel of a new Supreme Court term is less pronounced than in past years

because the court was so active over the summer, most notably delivering a series of victories

to the administration on its shadow docket without full briefing or oral argument.

Or I really should say the court's conservative supermajority, because the six conservative justices, for the most part,

joined together in the endorsement of Trump's claims, at least to the extent of dissolving

stays on them in the lower courts. Now we are back with a full term of argued cases, some of which

will give the court the opportunity to dramatically transform longstanding constitutional rules

and with them the daily lives of all Americans.

To preview the important trends in the term ahead, and in particular, analyze how they may

dovetail with the authoritarian agenda of the president. We're really fortunate to be able to welcome

one of the most knowledgeable and trenchant

Supreme Court commentators in the country, Kate Shaw.

Kate is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and co-host of the

Gold Standard Supreme Court podcast, Strict Scrutiny, among other distinctions.

And I just want to name two because they're germane.

She was at the White House Council, which had to do with a lot of litigation with different

agencies. And she clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Stevens. Kate, thanks so much

for joining Talking Fed's one-on-one. Thanks for having me back, Carrie. Okay, so where to start?

I think we can't just jump in with the big cases for the term, as is traditionally done without a few

words about the court's busy summer when the court repeatedly sided with the administration

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