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The Supreme Court of the United States belongs to the part of the government that isn't shut down right now.

The reason you're not hearing much about it is because most of the cases that's hearing are super.

The imposition of an acts its easement. Super. When Congress uses employee in Darden, but in read, the court used employment.

Boring. But just the pause for a second. That I think is probably the function of maritime law here and that is even if you're the show.

The president is trying to change that. There's so many big, big ticket cases that we're waiting here if the court's going to grant.

In part because the Trump Justice Department keeps trying to fast track cases so they're like, don't let this, you know,

fester in the lower courts decide it now.

Dalia Lithwick writes about the court for slate.

So there's a whole bunch of big, big things with the possibility that in the next, you know, days, weeks, months,

they add a couple of really blockbuster cases.

I asked her about the known, knowns and the known unknowns of the Supreme Court's new term.

We know they're hearing a slice of the census case.

Just the very brief recitation of the facts is that the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross adds the citizenship question to the census for 2020 over objections even within the government.

There hasn't been a citizenship question on the census since 1950.

And I think there's very good data that those kinds of questions will depress the count and that has all sorts of implications for funding and for

districtings. So it's a big, huge deal.

This week, Judge Jesse Furman in New York ordered it stopped.

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