It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Governor Hoke will join us on today's show with some details, we hope, of what she says is a conceptual agreement on the new state budget.

This could have massive implications for affordable housing in New York State, including new

rent controls. If you live in certain market rate apartments, we'll see if those are actually in there.

Also allowing more density in new construction for neighborhoods all over New York City.

But what about mayoral control of schools?

What about the bill to limit natural gas hookups and control both climate change and utility bills?

Taxing the rich, housing migrants outside New York City, new measures on violent crime, retail theft, very much in the negotiations.

We will see what we can learn when Governor Hokel joins us at 1110 this morning.

But first, it's becoming high season at the Supreme Court

and high season for criminal trials involving defendant Donald J. Trump. Between now and June, the Supreme Court

will decide on landmark cases from the legal status of the abortion pill, Mifipristone, to where the

presidents have immunity from prosecution, no matter their attempts at insurrection or any other crime.

They'll decide on the limits of power of federal agencies to make rules

based on acts of Congress. That could be the most important case who've never heard of, called

Loebber Bright Enterprises versus Raimondo will discuss. They just decided on Monday that a ban on

gender affirming care for trans teenagers by the state of Idaho can

mostly take effect that ban left in place at least for now while the underlying case continues

to be argued. And yesterday, the justices heard oral arguments in a case that could throw out

hundreds of January 6th related convictions of people who invaded the Capitol,

who juries found guilty of a law that makes it a crime to obstruct or impede an official proceeding,

including a congressional proceeding. Justice Neil Gorsuch expressed skepticism of those convictions

in this question about how serious an act has to be

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