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Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's most remarkable term featuring victories for immigrants, abortion rights, LGBTQ workers and religious freedoms and the dominant role of Chief Justice John Roberts. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses the bail hearing for Ghislaine Maxwell that ended with a ruling that she must spend the next year behind bars awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges tied to her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, but it also offered hints at her defense strategy. Bloomberg Legal Reporter Laurel Calkins discusses the legal battles of the Texas Republican Party in trying to force the city of Houston to host the party’s convention in person in the middle of a pandemic hot zone. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses President Donald Trump commuting the sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone, sentenced to more than three years in prison for witness tampering and lying to Congress. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight discusses the Trump administration rescinding a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor at Vermont Law School, discusses three major victories for environmentalists in one week in blocking oil and gas pipelines, as a court ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down during an environmental review, the Supreme Court refused to reinstate streamlined permitting for the Keystone XL pipeline and a decision by the developers of the Atlantic Coast pipeline to call it quits after years of legal delays. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Judge Dan Michael, the new President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, discusses his years on the bench of the Memphis and Shelby County Tennessee Juvenile Court, the work of the National Council, and his goals for juvenile and family courts. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Election law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's ruling that states can require members of the Electoral College to vote for the presidential candidate who won the statewide balloting in a decision that refers to the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" and the HBO comedy "Veep." Bloomberg Law Editor Jordan Rubin discusses a landmark 5-4 ruling, in which the Supreme Court affirmed the 19th-century reservation status of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, in a criminal case. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leah Litman, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses today's pair of of 7-2 Supreme Court rulings rejecting President Trump’s expansive view of the presidency and his call for sweeping immunity, leaving room for Congress and state prosecutors to get access to a president’s private records with a strong enough showing. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado describes how Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, has gone from a luxury estate in New Hampshire to lockdown in Brooklyn and the secrets her case may reveal. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how Donald Trump is on track to be the first president since Richard Nixon to go a full first term without selecting an African American nominee for a federal appeals court out of 53 confirmed appellate court judges. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the power Chief Justice John Roberts has, being the chief and now the swing vote on the Supreme Court. Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court decision that states must include religious schools in programs that offer taxpayer subsidies for private education. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School discusses how a closely divided Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that would have left the state with only one abortion clinic, in a surprise reinforcement for women’s reproductive rights. Jill Fisch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discusses a divided Supreme Court ruling that the president has broad power to fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying that Congress went too far in trying to insulate the agency from political pressure. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual Property Litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses the Ninth Circuit reviving a copyright lawsuit that claims the film “The Shape of Water” copied the play “Let Me Hear You Whisper.” It was former Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski's first win at his former court since retiring from it after sexual misconduct allegations. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gillian Metzger, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses why two high profile Supreme Court rulings are just the latest setbacks for the Trump administration in the area of federal agencies where it loses about 90% of its cases in court. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jill Fisch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discusses the Supreme Court limiting the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits from wrongdoers. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a divided Supreme Court bolstering the Trump administration's ability to quickly deport people who enter the country without documentation. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National security attorney Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses a federal appeals court ordering a judge to immediately dismiss the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Professor Elora Mukherjee, Director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, discusses a federal appeals court ruling that the Trump administration can use fast-track deportation proceedings for undocumented immigrants found anywhere in the U.S. who have been in the country for less than two years. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor, Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the controversy surrounding the resignation of Geoffrey S. Berman, the chief federal prosecutor in New York, after a remarkable standoff with Attorney General William Barr and contradictory comments from President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to take up a new test of “qualified immunity,” rejecting several appeals that challenged the legal doctrine that has become a broad liability shield for police officers accused of civil rights violations. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses how a divided Supreme Court dealt a rebuke to President Donald Trump, blocking him from ending the Obama-era program that shields 670,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation and lets them seek jobs. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court's landmark decision that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from job discrimination, giving millions of LGBT people in dozens of states civil rights they've sought for decades. Pat Parenteau, a professor at Vermont Law School, discusses the Supreme Court upholding a crucial permit for the planned $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline, clearing the natural-gas line to cross under the Appalachian Trail. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National Security lawyer Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the Trump administration seeking an emergency restraining order to stop the publication of a tell-all book by John Bolton, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Henning, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, discusses PG&E Corp. pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, admitting in a California courtroom that the bankrupt utility killed 84 people after its equipment ignited the deadliest wildfire in state history. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Samuel Estreicher, a professor at New York University law school and director of its Center for Labor and Employment Law, discusses the legal risks employers are wrestling with in getting workers back on the job while the pandemic is still spreading. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses a federal appeals court hearing on the U.S. Justice Department’s request to drop the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School, discusses a string of courtroom defeats for President Trump because federal agencies have not adequately considered the consequences to a warming planet. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that has come under fire because it protects police against civil lawsuits for the violation of constitutional rights. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a federal judge ordering that ICE agents cannot arrest undocumented immigrants at New York state courthouses. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Merrick Rossein, a professor at the City University of New York School of Law, discusses how businesses are taking steps to support their workers during protests against police brutality, while also retaining the legal right to fire workers who participate if they disagree with their actions. Christopher Opfer, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how two former Obama civil rights lawyers "switched sides." June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein discusses s federal judge questioning Facebook Inc.’s $550 million settlement of a class-action privacy lawsuit, asking whether that was really a lot of money. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses how the doors at federal courthouses around the nation are slowly starting to swing open with the convening of socially distanced grand juries. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual Property Litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses how filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and Apple defeated claims that their Apple TV+ show “Servant” rips off a 2013 film with a similar premise, “The Truth About Emanuel." June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that U.S. Bank NA won’t have to face a lawsuit challenging steep losses to its pension plan, because the plan participants who filed suit have nothing to gain or lose through the case. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuno, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the oversight board responsible for resolving Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, rejecting a bondholder challenge. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, of Lowenstein Sandler, discusses the new charges against the four police officers in the death of George Floyd and how difficult it will be to get a conviction. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses President Trump’s threat to send military troops into states and whether he has the authority under the law. Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the latest twists in the case of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor at Columbia Law School and a leading scholar of critical race theory, discusses the protests in response to the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and a constitutional law expert, discusses the Supreme Court rejecting a call by a California church to block restrictions on worship services during the coronavirus outbreak. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Stambleck, a partner at matrimonial firm, Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, discusses the likely spike in divorces in the U.S. after the pandemic. In China divorces hit record high numbers in several cities as couples emerged from weeks of government-mandated shutdowns. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses President Trump unleashing an executive order targeting social media companies like Twitter that have drawn his wrath. Election law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the challenges election officials have with just weeks left to ensure that their states can handle a surge of mail-in votes in November in the face of fierce opposition from Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, giving up a 14-month fight and pleading guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters into the University of Southern California as phony crew stars. Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business, discusses reported verbal agreements to resolve tens of thousands of cancer lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses former national security adviser Michael Flynn asking an appeals court to let the Justice Department drop a criminal case against him for lying to the FBI rather than waiting for a lower-court judge to decide. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual Property Litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses the first trial in federal court done by video and his role as the plaintiff’s counsel. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court blocking House Democrats for now from getting access to confidential materials from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, granting a request from President Donald Trump’s administration. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how Johnson & Johnson’s decision to phase out the talc-based version of its iconic baby powder may signal the company is preparing for a global settlement of almost 20,000 pending claims that the product causes cancer. They speak to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department drafting a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, accusing the internet giant of violating antitrust laws. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the highs and lows of the Supreme Court’s historic oral argument session broadcast live. They speak to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Edward Foley, Director of the Election Law Program at the Moritz College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court justices seeming reluctant to give members of the Electoral College the right to vote as they please. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court arguments on calls by religious groups for a broader exemption from discrimination suits in appeals from two Roman Catholic grade schools fighting bias claims after firing teachers. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School, discusses the historic Supreme Court arguments over President Trump’s attempt to keep his financial records secret and defy subpoenas from the House and a New York prosecutor. She speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Election law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the challenges ahead in the presidential elections and what can be done. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the Supreme Court arguments in a hugely consequential case implicating the status of American Indian lands. Patricia Hurtado discusses the growing number of lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in compensation from China for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak. They speak to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses the first day of live arguments at the Supreme Court. Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments on the Trump administration’s broad expansion of the employers and universities who can opt-out from the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. Christine Reilly, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, discusses the Supreme Court arguments over a challenge to the ban on robocalls. They speak to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the Supreme Court decision throwing out the convictions of two allies of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for the Bridgegate scandal. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses the confirmation hearing for President Trump’s controversial nominee to the second highest court in the country. Joe Brennan, a professor at Vermont Law School, discusses how college students, kicked off campus by the coronavirus, have sued more than 50 schools. They speak to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit requested that the Chief Justice of the United States, assign another circuit to look into a complaint filed by the group Demand Justice, following reports that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had been contacting appeals court judges nominated by Republican presidents to encourage them to retire. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the Supreme Court’s decision that Georgia cannot hide its annotated legal code behind a paywall, a decision heralded by public access advocates. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School and a Second Amendment expert, discusses the Supreme Court dropping a clash over New York City handgun-transportation restrictions, saying the city had made the issues in the case moot by changing the law to give residents more freedom to travel with their weapons. He speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Abbe Gluck, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that federal government must abide by a pledge to pay insurers $12 billion to cover some of the losses they incurred providing risky policies under Obamacare. She speaks to host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.