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On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover breaks down this week's oral arguments in major cases about the deadline for mail ballots and asylum seekers at the southern border, and he interviews an intellectual property law professor about Wednesday's unanimous win for internet providers over copyright claims.
"Do horses and buggies cross state lines?" asked Justice Amy Coney Barrett, referring to a 100-year-old law exempting interstate commerce workers from compelled arbitration.
The justices grappled Tuesday with the logistics of a Trump immigration policy no longer in effect, leading Justice Brett Kavanaugh to describe the conversation as "artificial."
"We don't have Election Day anymore," said Justice Samuel Alito Jr.. "We have election month or we have election months."
In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews law professor Michael Morley of Florida State University's Election Law Center about a major mail-voting case that could affect the upcoming midterm elections.
On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews Second Amendment scholar Haley Proctor about this week's hearing about a federal gun ban for marijuana users, and where the state of the court's gun rights jurisprudence stands.
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision telling courts to defer to immigration officials in asylum cases came as unwelcome news to immigration lawyers.
"You keep saying front-line position. To me, that conveys the notion that you're ready to retreat," Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. told a U.S. Justice Department lawyer Tuesday.
"I have never heard of the drug," Justice Amy Coney Barrett said after Justice Elena Kagan's ayahuasca example. "Is that real?"
On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, Supreme Court reporter Jimmy Hoover and Law.com litigation reporter Alyssa Aquino break down the landmark ruling striking down President Donald Trump's tariffs and discuss what comes next.
