Welcome back to the City Journal podcast.

I'm your host, Charles Finn Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal.

Joining me on a very special mostly Supreme Court episode today are Uly Shapiro, John Ketchum,

Rainer Muguchi, Supreme Court watchers, all, some of them longer than others, but all here

to educate me and you are listeners about what the heck went down. Last week at the Supreme Court,

which we're going to jump right into, as I think you'll take up a lot of the episode. We'll hit

on a couple of minor things later.

But on Friday, the Supreme Court dropped like basically every single case we had been waiting for this term, right?

Other than Scrametti, which we talked about the previous week, yes.

It was a very – I mean, we always talk about how the decisions are backloaded and, you know, the end of

June is when they come. But this was especially so, you know, overall, there weren't as many blockbusters as in past years with, you know, abortion, affirmative action, guns, Obamacare, what have you. But all of the terms biggest cases came like in the last 10 days. Yeah, I mean, that was that was part of, you know,

I was sort of sitting on my thumbs waiting for, I had a piece on Paxton v. Free Speech Coalition,

which we'll get to in a minute. I read that. This is in the dispatch about banning insanity, right?

I commend that piece to everyone. Thank you. I appreciate it. We'll

see if anyone bites on it. I had a friend text me who is like, if I've ever a U.S. attorney, I'll take you up on this plan. I was like, good. We'll get there. No, so let's you know, I want to, I want to hop into this. Ilya and John, you guys are our legal experts on the panel, although, you know, Rainu, you're also a Supreme Court fan, so I want to hear your thoughts too. But give us a rundown of what we saw

on Friday. What's, what are the highlights?

Well, the headline is Trump Vicasa. You know, everyone talking about birthright citizenship

nationwide injunctions. They did not rule on birthright citizenship at all. That's,

you know, stay tuned for next term for that. But the headline was Trump wins. They throw out

nationwide injunctions except asterisk. What Justice Barrett, who was assigned to write this

opinion, that's a bit of a curiosity, is did Roberts do that purposely to rehabilitate her reputation? She was being attacked for going left, what have you. But anyway, she said that was, I think, a big, that was, you know, one of the big takeaways is the way in which, you know, this was not a soft liberal opinion from Justice Barrett. It wasn't, but it left, as Justice Alito said in his concurrence, it left a lot to be further

litigated so that there cannot be nationwide and universal injunctions, as they're called.

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