Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (SCOTUS Podcast)

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• WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J. (Transgender Athletes, Title IX) 01.07.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail 1. Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex, and West Virginia has permissibly maintained female sports for biological females consistent with Title IX. Support the show
• TRUMP v. BARBARA (BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP) RJD Recoding 01.07.2026 15мин

  Send us Fan Mail Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. Support the show
• National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) (Campaign Finance/Election Law) 01.07.2026 7мин

  Send us Fan Mail In NRSC v. FEC the Supreme Court granted Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to answer the question of whether the limits imposed by the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) on how much political parties can spend in direct coordination with their federal candidates violate the First Amendment. Held: FECA’s political party coordinated expenditure limits violate the First Amendment. Justice Kavanaugh delivered the opinion of the Court...
• Trump v. Barbara (Birthright citizenship) JB recording. 01.07.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court held that children born in the U.S. to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment, striking down Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship. The Court relied on the common law rule of jus soli and its precedent in Wong Kim Ark, rejecting the Government's domicile-based theory. Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the Court; Kavanaugh concurred in part and dissented in part, whil...
• WATSON v. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (Absentee ballots and Election day statutes) 29.06.2026 11мин

  Send us Fan Mail The federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day. Support the show
• CHATRIE v. UNITED STATES (4a and Geofence Warrant for Google Location history) 29.06.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail Police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired Chatrie’s location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information. Support the show
• Trump v. Cook (For Cause Removal (Federal Reserve)) 29.06.2026 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Trump v. Cook, the Supreme Court denied the Government's application to stay an injunction reinstating Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, whom President Trump had fired over alleged mortgage fraud predating her appointment. The Court held that the Federal Reserve Act's "for cause" removal standard is judicially reviewable, that "cause" requires a substantial showing reflecting the Fed's unique independence, and—resolving the case on this narrow ground—that the President f...
• Trump v. Slaughter (For cause removal protection (non-Federal Reserve)) 29.06.2026 16мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court held that the FTC's for-cause removal protection for its Commissioners violates the separation of powers, overruling Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) to the extent it survived. The Court reasoned that the Constitution vests executive power solely in the President, who must be able to remove at will any officer—like an FTC Commissioner—who exercises that power, a principle confirmed by the First Congress's "Decision of 1789" ...
• Monsanto v. Durnell (Federal Preemption) 26.06.2026 6мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, the Supreme Court held that FIFRA expressly preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim demanding a cancer warning on Roundup's label, since the EPA had approved the label without one and federal law requires using the approved label. The Court (per Justice Kavanaugh) reversed a $1 million Missouri verdict; Justice Thomas concurred; Justice Jackson, joined by Justice Gorsuch, dissented. Support the show
• MULLIN v. DOE (TPS/Immigration/Admin Law) 25.06.2026 8мин

  Send us Fan Mail The TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims. Support the show
• Mullin v. Al Otro Lado (INA & Arriving in the United States) 25.06.2026 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Supreme Court held that an alien standing in Mexico does not "arrive in the United States" within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act by attempting and failing to set foot in the country; arrival occurs only when the alien crosses the border. The case arose from the Government's 2016 "metering" policy, under which border officials stood on the U.S. side and limited the number of asylum seekers allowed to enter and be processed eac...
• Blanche v. Lau (Immigration and Nationality Act) 25.06.2026 7мин

  Send us Fan Mail In Blanche v. Lau, the Supreme Court held that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not require a border officer to have clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident has committed a crime involving moral turpitude before treating that resident as an applicant for admission. Lau, a lawful permanent resident, was charged with trademark counterfeiting, briefly traveled abroad, and on his return was paroled rather than admitted because of the pending charge;...
• WOLFORD v. LOPEZ (2nd Amendment and Hawaii) 25.06.2026 10мин

  Send us Fan Mail Hawaii's rules about not allowing people to concealed carry on private property unless the owner posts consent is unconstitutional. Support the show
• EXXON MOBIL CORP. v. CORPORACIÓN CIMEX, S. A. (CUBA & Helms-Burton Act lawsuits) 25.06.2026 8мин

  Send us Fan Mail The Helms-Burton Act itself abrogates the sovereign immunity of Cuban agencies and instrumentalities Support the show
• LANDOR v. LOUISIANA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS AND PUBLIC SAFETY (Spending Clause authority, RULIPA) 25.06.2026 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail Individuals may not be held liable in their personal capacities under a Spending Clause statute unless those individuals have voluntarily and knowingly consented to answer lawsuits under the statute; because the individual defendants in this case did not voluntarily and knowingly consent to face RLUIPA liability in an agreement with the federal government, Mr. Landor’s case cannot proceed against them. Support the show
• PUNG v. ISABELLA COUNTY (Tax Sale/Gvmt Forclosure/Takings) 25.06.2026 6мин

  Send us Fan Mail The proper baseline for measuring “just compensation” following a tax sale is the auction sale price, not the property’s hypothetical fair market value, at least when the sale is fairly conducted in light of the country’s history of tax sales. Pp. 4–11. Support the show
• Cisco v. Doe (Alien Tort Statute & Torture Victim Protection Act) 25.06.2026 8мин

  Send us Fan Mail The Supreme Court held that federal courts may no longer create new causes of action for violations of international law under the Alien Tort Statute, effectively closing the narrow door that Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain had left open in 2004. Reasoning that judicial authority under Sosa's framework was narrow from the start and that the power to create causes of action belongs to Congress—particularly where the Constitution expressly assigns Congress the job of defining off...
• McCarthy v. Hernandez (Habeas and Miranda) 22.06.2026 16мин

  Send us Fan Mail In a per curiam decision, the Supreme Court summarily reversed the Second Circuit’s grant of federal habeas relief to Pedro Hernandez, who was convicted of kidnapping and felony murder in the 1979 disappearance and death of Etan Patz. The Second Circuit had concluded that the state trial judge should have told the jury about the rule from Missouri v. Seibert governing when a confession obtained after a delayed Miranda warning may be tainted by an earlier unwarned confession. ...
• T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation (RookerFeldman Doctrine) 21.06.2026 12мин

  Send us Fan Mail We speak today to say...nothing has changed... Support the show
• Hunter v. United States (Criminal law appeal waiver enforceability) 21.06.2026 12мин

  Send us Fan Mail Because a criminal law appeal waiver must be both knowingly and voluntary a waiver of ineffective assistance of counsel is not really possible. Support the show