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Abbe Gluck, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reigniting the statutory interpretation wars and whether some cracks are emerging in textualism. June Grasso hosts.
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Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the conservative Fifth Circuit becoming the circuit most reversed by the Supreme Court this term. Then former federal prosecutor Marisa Darden, head of the White Collar, Government Investigations & Regulatory Practice Group at Benesch Law, discusses DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro indicting a former Olympian for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. June Grasso hosts.
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Constitutional law expert Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent term from the expansion of presidential power to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. June Grasso hosts.
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Constitutional law expert Gillian Metzger, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court’s decision expanding presidential power. Then constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship. And Andrew Schapiro, a partner in the appellate practice at Quinn Emanuel and the former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, discusses the court once again eliminating campaign finance restrictions. June Grasso hosts.
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Andrew Schapiro, a partner in the appellate law practice at Quinn Emanuel and the former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, discusses the Supreme Court doing away with political party spending caps. Zane McNeill, an attorney in Lawyers for Good Government’s gender justice and health equity practice, discusses the Supreme Court upholding state laws that ban transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams. Marisa Darden, chair of the white collar and government investigations practice group at Benesch Law, discusses the indictment of two former NBA players in the sports gambling probe. June Grasso hosts.
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Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming birthright citizenship. June Grasso hosts.
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Constitutional law experts Gillian Metzger, a professor at Columbia Law School, and Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss Supreme Court decisions expanding President Trump’s power to fire top federal regulators, but carving out an exception for the Federal Reserve. June Grasso hosts.
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The US Supreme Court ruled that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can stay in her job for now, reinforcing the central bank’s independence from the White House and dealing a setback to President Donald Trump.
In a separate ruling, the court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials at other federal agencies.
Voting 5-4, the high court said Cook can remain at the Fed while she fights Trump’s bid to oust her over unproven mortgage fraud allegations. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the three liberals in the majority.Bloomberg's Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu got reaction from:
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International law expert Curtis Bradley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses Supreme Court’s decisions basically eliminating human rights lawsuits against companies over atrocities committed abroad. Then Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and Director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, discusses the Supreme Court decision blocking a Rastafarian’s suit Against prison officials for cutting off his dreadlocks in a flagrant violation of his religious rights. And former Manhattan prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Paul Callan, of counsel at Edelman & Edelman, discusses the Supreme Court reinstating the murder conviction of Pablo Hernandez for the murder of 6 year old Etan Patz who became the poster child for missing children. June Grasso hosts.
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Second Amendment expert Andrew Willinger, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court finding Hawaii’s so-called “vampire” gun law unconstitutional. Then immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the two Supreme Court rulings in favor of the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies. June Grasso hosts.
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International law expert Curtis Bradley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses Supreme Court’s decisions basically eliminating human rights lawsuits against companies over atrocities committed abroad, but reviving Exxon’s $1 billion suit against a Cuban conglomerate for operating oil and gas assets seized in 1960. Then Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School, an expert in federal judicial selection, discusses the uphill battle facing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in getting confirmed as the US Attorney General. June Grasso hosts.
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Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and Director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, discusses the Supreme Court decision blocking a Rastafarian’s suit against prison officials for cutting off his dreadlocks in a flagrant violation of his religious rights. Then Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight and the former head of the Office of Immigration Litigation in the Obama administration, discusses the Supreme Court decision backing the Trump administration and border officials over the re-entry of a green card holder. June Grasso hosts.
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Former Manhattan prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Paul Callan, of counsel at Edelman & Edelman, discusses the Supreme Court reinstating the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez for the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz who became the poster child for missing children. Then constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the high profile cases the Supreme Court has yet to decide this term including cases on birthright citizenship and the firing of a Federal Reserve Governor. June Grasso hosts.
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Constitutional law expert Louis Michael Seidman, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the book “The Constitution Cannot Save Us: Why We Can No Longer Rely on Our Founding Document,” discusses the Supreme Court allowing marijuana users to have guns. Amy Powell, Litigation Director at Lawyers for Good Government and former Justice Department Senior Trial Counsel, discusses the Justice Department refusing to comply with a judge’s request for sworn statements that President Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate alleged victims of so-called government weaponization, is dead. Bloomberg Law Senior Correspondent Roy Strom discusses how Big Law firms are using hard-to-get tickets to major sporting events to “bond” with their clients. June Grasso hosts
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Constitutional law expert Louis Michael Seidman, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the book “The Constitution Cannot Save Us: Why We Can No Longer Rely on Our Founding Document,” discusses the Supreme Court allowing marijuana users to have guns. Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight and the former head of the Office of Immigration Litigation, discusses World Cup visa problems and the Supreme Court taking up a case involving the prolonged detention of ICE detainees. June Grasso hosts.
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Criminal defense attorney Jeremy Saland, a former Manhattan prosecutor, discusses Luigi Mangione asserting a psychiatric defense at his New York murder trial. Then Jacqueline Thomsen, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses recent incidents of misconduct by judges raising questions about the policing of judicial misconduct. And securities law expert James Park, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court closing off a major avenue for shareholders to sue closed-end funds. June Grasso hosts.
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Ric Simmons, a professor at Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law, discusses the revelations of prosecutorial misconduct in the grand jury transcripts of a Chicago case against ICE protesters that was dismissed. June Grasso hosts.
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Amy Powell, Litigation Director at Lawyers for Good Government and former Justice Department Senior Trial Counsel, discusses a judge’s refusal to dismiss a challenge to President Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate alleged victims of so-called government weaponization. Then Ben Penn, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses a major AI smuggling prosecution that may be in jeopardy due to Trump’s approval for Nvidia to sell chips to some customers in China. And Bloomberg Legal Reporter Ava Benny-Morrison, discusses Sam Bankman Fried’s appeal being turned down. June Grasso hosts
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On this edition of Weekend Law, Amy Morris fills in for June Grasso.
Leon Fresco, immigration law expert and partner at Holland & Knight discusses the latest headlines as the Trump adminstration cracks down on immigration, including a federal judge striking down the President's $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. Bloomberg's Annelise Levy joins to talk about her reporting on a program Amazon uses to weed out copyright violators that might be overstepping. And AI and technology law expert Justin Daniels, a shareholder at Baker Donelson talks about how lawyers are using and sometimes abusing artificial intelligence.
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Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a Professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses why prosecutors in the Trump Justice Department are having problems getting grand juries to indict. Then Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses the conservative justices ruling in favor of Republicans and giving them an edge in the midterms. And intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a Partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the trademark infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift over her “The Life of a Showgirl” album. June Grasso hosts.
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