Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Scott Detro.

I'm covering the Biden transition.

I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent, and I'm Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent.

And you know, we've been having these conversations lately about what various policy areas could

look like.

Next year, once Joe Biden's in the White House, and we're going to do that today with

the courts, with the Supreme Court.

Obviously, there's no instant shift the moment Biden becomes president in terms of what

the Supreme Court is dealing with and looks like.

But I think it's still a good conversation.

And Nina, let's, you know, there's so much we don't know, but let's start with something

we definitely do know.

What is on the court's docket over the next few months?

And what is the court going to be focused on in the early days of the Biden administration?

Well, we haven't gotten any major decisions, but we have had some of the cases argued, for

example, a huge religion case that tests whether the city of Philadelphia's foster care program

and exclude as a contractor, in this case, Catholic charities, because they discriminate

against gay and lesbian parents who are wanting to foster children.

And it's a really big deal, obviously, if this is discrimination against a religion, which

I suspect five or six members of the court think it is, then what other kinds of limits

can be put on contracts that state and local governments put into effect?

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