Supreme Court Rulings This Term Impact Immigrants, Transgender Youth, EPA Regulations

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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So far this term the Supreme Court has allowed states to ban gender transition care for youth, made it easier for white people and other “majority” group members to prove workplace discrimination and temporarily cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport people to countries they’re not from. We talk about the impact of these rulings and other cases still to be decided. Guests: Rory Little, professor of constitutional law, emeritus, UC School of Law, San Francisco Melissa Murray, professor of law, NYU School of Law - co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, the Supreme Court this morning said that states can cut off Medicaid funding to planned
1:12.2	parenthood. We break down that decision and look at some of the most significant cases of this
1:17.6	Supreme Court term, both decided and not yet decided, like the Trump administration's effort
1:23.7	to limit national injunctions as the president seeks to end birthright citizenship.
1:29.4	Law professors, Melissa Murray and Rory Little join us to take your questions.
1:34.1	Forum is next right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. So far this term, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed states to ban gender transition care for youth, made it easier for white people or other majority group members to bring workplace discrimination claims,
2:04.8	and cleared the way temporarily for the Trump administration to deport people to countries they are not from.
2:11.4	And this morning, in a 6 to 3 ruling, the court said Planned Parenthood and a patient cannot sue to stop South Carolina
2:18.5	from blocking Medicaid funding to the health provider. This hour, we talk about the impact of these
2:23.7	rulings and look ahead to the biggest decisions expected tomorrow with Rory Little,
2:30.2	emeritus professor of constitutional and criminal law at UC Law, San Francisco. Hi, Rory. Hi, very happy to be here.
2:36.6	Glad to have you. And Melissa Murray is with us, Professor of Law at NYU, co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mina. Great to be here.
2:46.1	Yeah, glad to have you to talk about this Planned Parenthood ruling. So Melissa, by siding with South Carolina,
2:52.6	what did the Supreme Court essentially do? So this question is really a procedural question about
2:59.6	whether and in what circumstances individuals who are public rights beneficiaries, like
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