So we are talking on Tuesday, July 26th at about 12.15 PM. And what is our subject for this episode?

Well, let's talk about the longest week of a Supreme Court term ever.

Yeah, I felt it, I felt it too.

In any Supreme Court term, which begins every October,

the Supreme Court tends to issue its most important decisions at the end of the term,

which is usually at the end of June, and this term wasn't any exception.

But it was a different kind of term.

The Supreme Court decided to unrecognize a constitutional

right. That's what happened when the conservative majority on the court

overturned Roe v. Wade in the case of Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization.

So now states can criminalize abortion entirely and some states have started to do just that.

That was June 24th.

The Supreme Court also decided to expand

another constitutional right.

In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association

versus Bruin, the court decided that the Second Amendment protects a

broad right to carry guns outside of your home. In this Second Amendment case,

just like in the abortion rights case. The court said,

what matters is history and tradition,

but just in the other way.

Now, if the states want to impose rules on carrying guns in public after Bruin, they have to show

that the regulation is consistent with this nation's historical tradition of

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