From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is The Daily.

Today, the Supreme Court begins rolling out a series of major rulings

on the jury system, immigration, abortion rights, and presidential power.

Adam Lipteck on the high court in the middle of the pandemic.

It's Tuesday, April 21.

Here we go. Adam. Hello, Michael.

Is it you who has the birds chirping, Adam?

Oh, maybe I can close the window. I have a window that's cracked open a bit and I bet I could

de-chirporize it. Okay, here we go.

Okay, thank you for turning off your birds. At least I can do.

Adam, we usually talk to you after you spend a morning over the Supreme Court

in the chamber watching the justices and I have to imagine that the routines of the court

have completely changed. The Supreme Court is turned invisible to me. I cover the court now from,

you know, my home office, whereas on days like this when the court issues decisions,

you typically have a packed press room and people listening to the justices announce the decisions

from the bench, but they've postponed two sets of arguments and just recently I've decided to hear

10 arguments by telephone, which is a brand new experience for all concerned and we'll let the

public listen in on those arguments, which is also a brand new experience of live audio from

the Supreme Court. So a lot is changing. So as different as everything is for the justices and

for you covering them, there was a major ruling that was handed down on Monday. So tell us about

this case. Well, so I'm sitting at my desk hitting the refresh button right before 10 o'clock

and the case comes up. It's called Ramos versus Louisiana. It involves Evangelista Ramos, who in

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