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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Supreme Court kicks off its new term today, October 6th, and it promises to be a big one

for the power of the presidency, free speech, and voting rights, and my other things.

What can we expect from the court this term and how will

it affect the public perception of the justices in this year of highly partisan and polarized

American politics. Welcome to Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal

Opinion pages. I'm Paul Giego. And my guest today, Ilya Shapiro. He's a senior

fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. He's also author of the book,

Lawless, The Miseducation of America's elites, about conformity in American education, especially

its law schools. Welcome, Ilya. Thanks for coming in. Good to see you again.

Good to be back with you on this first day of school, as it were, for the new Supreme Court term.

All right. Let's dig right into the cases and take some of the categories of these cases one by one.

And I think the press is focused right now more than anything else on presidential

power and the limits of that power. And of course, casting this term as a showdown of sorts

between the court and Donald Trump, since everything in our era is always and everything

about Donald Trump. But the stakes are much larger than a single

presidency. And let's talk about some of these cases. Start with the tariff case and the president's

use of the emergency statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose willy-nilly

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