Hello and welcome to the G0 World podcast.

I'm Ian Bremmer, and this is where you can find extended versions of my show on public television.

And on the pod today, I'm taking you to court.

The Supreme Court, in a matter of weeks, the highest court in the land will issue decisions on cases

that will impact everything from gun ownership to reproductive rights,

to housing laws, to voting maps, to the power of government agencies.

It comes at a time when approval for the court is at an all-time low.

I'm welcoming back to the show Emily Bazelon to preview some of the most important rulings to come.

She teaches at Yale Law School, co-hosts the Popular Slate Political GabFest podcast,

and is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine.

Let's get to it. Emily Bazelon, welcome back to GZero.

Thanks so much for having me.

So much to talk about.

As always, with the Supreme Court and the major cases now that everyone paying attention to is impact

on this election, specifically right now with rulings coming on immunity. What are you surprised

about in the way this has gone so far? Well, I was surprised by the argument before the Supreme

Court in April because it seemed going in

that this was a pretty clear case that Trump's claim that he has absolute immunity for acts he

committed in office is just too broad, that this is this idea that the president is not bound

by the rule of law, the lower courts had rejected it,

it seemed kind of obvious. And then it did not seem obvious at all while the justices were

talking about it. They didn't seem really interested in focusing on this set of criminal

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