When the Supreme Court wrapped up its term last week, much of the focus was one the ruling that gave former President Donald J. Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution. But another set of rulings that generated less attention could have just as big an impact on American government and society. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, looks back at the Supreme Court term. Guest: Adam Liptak, , who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times and writes Sidebar, a column on legal developments.
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This is the daily when the Supreme Court wrapped up its term last week, much of the focus was on the ruling that gave Donald Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution.
But as my colleague Adam Liptak explains, a set of rulings that generated far less attention could have just as, as big an impact on american government and society.
It's Monday, July 8.
Adam, welcome back.
I mean, it hasn't been very long, but we want to talk to you about the rest of the Supreme Court's decisions that happened over the past few weeks, the rest meaning the non Trump decisions.
There were a lot of other cases, many of which we covered on the show over the past year, but we haven't yet talked about where the justices landed as they issued their rulings on these cases over the past few weeks.
So I wonder if you can walk us through some of the bigger decisions and what, taken as a whole, this entire term really means.
So where should we start?
Well, this term had so many major cases, Michael, on so many important issues touching all aspects of american politics and society, that it's a little hard to know where to start.
But I think one way to think about the term is to ask how much is this a six three court, you know, the six conservatives in the majority, the three liberal justices in dissent.
Are we going to get that kind of classic lineup time after time after time?
And one way to start answering that question is to look at two areas which are kind of part of the court's greatest hits, areas where they've done a lot of work in the last few guns and abortion.