What You Need to Know About 2024’s Most Significant Supreme Court Decisions
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The New Yorker staff writer Amy Davidson Sorkin joins Tyler Foggatt to examine the biggest Supreme Court decisions of the year—those already decided and those yet to come. They discuss the Court’s attempt to moderate its radical rulings on guns and abortion, its politicized selection of which cases to hear, and its influence on the 2024 election.
This week’s reading:
- “The Supreme Court Steps Back from the Brink on Guns,” by Amy Davidson Sorkin
- “Yet More Donald Trump Cases Head to the Supreme Court,” by Amy Davidson Sorkin
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| 0:00.0 | It's late June, the time in the year when the biggest Supreme Court decisions are typically |
| 0:10.7 | handed down, and this term includes some very consequential cases. |
| 0:15.0 | The Supreme Court, which has now added argument days and could finish its term in some very big cases this week. |
| 0:20.0 | The Supreme Court issued multiple rulings today, but the cases involving gun rights and |
| 0:24.0 | abortions during medical emergencies, well, all those are still pending. |
| 0:26.7 | And then there's the case that justices seem to be trying to delay on purpose, the coup trial or presidential immunity for Donald Trump. |
| 0:35.0 | I spoke with my colleague, staff writer Amy Davidson Sorkin, on Tuesday, June 25th, ahead of the week's |
| 0:41.7 | decisions. |
| 0:42.8 | We talked about how to interpret the opinions |
| 0:44.7 | that have already been issued, |
| 0:46.2 | what to expect in the opinions to come, |
| 0:48.3 | and how this might all affect the election. |
| 0:51.0 | You're listening to the political scene. I'm Tyler Foggett and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey Amy, thanks so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi Tyler, how are you doing? |
| 1:06.0 | I'm good. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm wondering if we can start by just having you walk through the big cases that the Supreme Court is deciding on this term. |
| 1:14.1 | You know, so it's currently Tuesday morning. |
| 1:16.3 | It looks like the Supreme Court is going to be issuing a number of extremely consequential |
| 1:20.9 | opinions as the week goes on. |
| 1:23.0 | And before that happens, I'm wondering if you can just walk us through |
| 1:25.8 | some of the big cases that they've been looking at and |
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