It's Thursday June 30th. I'm Gideon Resnick.

And I am Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day and our final podcast before the minions

meet Gru and everything changes.

Yeah, if you thought you heard lightning just now, you didn't. It's the minions.

It's the minions meeting Gru and everything as I said.

On today's show, we wrap up primary election results from New York, Illinois and more

plus the BA4 and BA5 Omicron variants are now the dominant COVID strains in the US.

But first, we received more rulings by the Supreme Court on a variety of cases yesterday.

So we want to run you through what was decided and what you need to know.

Yes, so there were a few key ones here, most of which were sort of along the same lines

as the opinions that we've been getting throughout this term. So give us the spark notes here.

Yeah, not great. So the biggest change is likely to come from the decision that the

court made in Oklahoma V Castro, where they decided with the state of Oklahoma and in

doing so, they dramatically increased the power that states have over Native American tribes

and tribal lands. So Oklahoma wanted to prosecute a non-Native man who was convicted of child

neglect against a Native American child that took place on Cherokee land.

And basically, up until now, states did not have this kind of jurisdiction over crimes

on tribal land. Those were left to tribal courts or the federal government. But this decision

is a huge change to that policy. It also undermines a decision that the court made back in 2020

when they determined that nearly half of Oklahoma was Native American reservation land that

was beyond the jurisdiction of state authorities. The makeup of the court has changed

for the worse since then. So this is what we have now. In the majority opinion, beer lover

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