Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast. Here you can find extended versions of my show on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer, and today we are looking at some of the most consequential Supreme Court rulings of the year.

The Supreme Court has already weighed in on everything from voting rights to the power of federal agencies.

Up next, rulings on birthright citizenship,

presidential control of independent agencies, immigrant protections, campaign finance, and other

issues that could reshape the balance between executive power and constitutional limits.

And of course, there's the tense relationship between the judiciary and President Trump,

as courts across the country have tried, with varying success, to check this administration.

After a U.S. District Court judge ordered the president's name removed from the Kennedy Center,

President Trump called the court system rigged.

You've heard that before.

But it's not just the president who has problems with the bench.

A September 2025 Pew survey found that only 48% of Americans viewed the Supreme Court favorably.

That's down from 70% just five years earlier. Gallup recorded a 39% approval rating, the lowest since it began tracking the court in 2000.

But despite declining confidence, the judiciary does remain one of the few institutions

that is willing to confront a president determined to push the boundaries of executive power.

So where are those boundaries today?

How much power should the courts have to stop a president?

And what happens when Americans no longer trust the institutions that are meant to answer those questions?

Joining me today, Emily Bazelon, she is senior research scholar at Yale Law School,

staff writer for the New York Times Magazine Magazine and one of the country's leading legal

commentators.

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