from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday,

September 9th. So on yesterday's show, as some of you heard, we did a segment describing a series of losses that President Trump had in lower courts recently,

right, slowing his push to concentrate power in ways that many see as authoritarian.

To remind you of some of the recent losses on imposing and removing tariffs based on the president's whims,

on funding cuts to Harvard, the court in that case said it was a

First Amendment free speech violation. Several were related to issues of immigration and deportation.

They tried to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minors back to Guatemala. A plane was on the tarmac late at

night a couple of weeks ago,

and the judge ordered that it not take off and the children be removed from the plane.

Trump lost on ending temporary protected status the way he did for people who have been here legally from Venezuela and Haiti.

And on using the Alien Enemies Act, which allows deportations without due process during times of war, the court noted,

the U.S. is not at war.

And on deploying the U.S. military to Los Angeles from what is now called the Department of War,

the court said there was no rebellion, this is a quote, there was no rebellion, nor was

civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law. And remember,

those protests in L.A. were partly in response to a sweep by immigration enforcement, ICE,

to pick up lots of workers at a Home Depot in L.A. County. Hold that

thought. We noted on yesterday show that all of those losses for Trump were in lower courts, right?

And many or all would eventually wind up at the Supreme Court where we know Trump tends to win.

Well, sure enough, almost right after we aired that segment,

came a bombshell ruling from the Supreme Court that would allow racial profiling as a factor

in deciding who to stop to check their immigration status. Just looking Latino to an ICE agent

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