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The U.S. Supreme Court term that concluded at the end of June was

remarkable in how it expanded presidential power and limited the power of the lower courts. And this

week, after the term had ended, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can continue to

fire tens of thousands of federal workers and government

agencies, even though the question of whether he has the right to do so without the approval

of Congress is still continuing to make its way through the legal system.

An unprecedented number of the court's decisions were made on the emergency docket, which

allows the cases to be heard within weeks instead of taking a year, but there is little or no transparency and no oral arguments in these rulings.

Here to explain the short and long-term implications of these decisions, as well as discussing the conflicts of opinion among the justices, including how controversial Katanji

Brown Jackson's dissents have become within the court, is Adam Liptack. He's covered the Supreme

Court for the New York Times since 2008. I was disappointed to read that the end of this Supreme

Court term also marked the end of his time covering this beat. He'll now be covering the law

more broadly for the times while continuing to write sidebar his column on legal affairs. We recorded

our interview yesterday morning. Adam Liptec, welcome back to fresh air. Let's start with this

week's decision relating to the president's ability to downsize

the government through Doge and remove tens of thousands of people from government positions.

A lower court had ruled that this order should be paused until the case finished making

its way through the courts. Would you describe the Supreme Court decision?

So this is one of what is now a whole pile-up of orders on emergency applications

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