Law360's The Term - News & Analysis on the Supreme Court
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Law360's The Term - News & Analysis on the Supreme Court
The Term is a podcast from Law360 for the busy U.S. Supreme Court watcher. Give us about 15 minutes each week and we'll catch you up on all the big action at the nation's highest court, along with a list of what to watch in the coming sessions. Hosts senior Supreme Court reporter Jimmy Hoover in Was...
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S4 FINALE: United Or Divided? A Podcast Roundtable On The High Court
Another U.S. Supreme Court season is in the books, and while the final week of opinions featured some supermajority holdings along party lines on divi...
S4, E37: The Court Closes With LGBTQ Rights And Biden Debt Plan
The U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up its term on Friday with a pair of monumental opinions. First, the court ruled that a Christian website designer in C...
S4, E36: The Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismantled affirmative action in a 6-3 majority opinion which held that race-based admissions policies at Harvard a...
S4, E35: The Court Delivers Its Immigration Blockbusters
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on a pair of important immigration questions Friday morning, deciding in one opinion to uphold a federal law that ma...
S4, E34: A Victory For Native American Sovereignty
The Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 federal law designed to stop the state and federal practice of removing Native American children from their commu...
S4, E33: The Voting Rights Act Survives. What’s Next?
In one of the blockbuster voting rights cases of the Supreme Court term, a five-justice majority on Thursday concluded that an Alabama congressional m...
S4, E32: Union Strikes Out At High Court In Cement Case
In one of the blockbuster employment cases of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave companies the green light to sue over strikes that are...
S4, E31: Justices Dry Up Water Regulation
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday set out to clarify what constitutes “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act and, in the process, se...
S4, E30: The Internet Survives The Supreme Court, For Now
The case that many court watchers speculated could break the internet by curtailing protections for social media companies sued over content on their...
S4, E29: Huzzah, Here Come The High Court Opinions
The U.S. Supreme Court finally chipped away at its mountain of outstanding opinions, releasing five decisions on Thursday. Among those, one upheld a C...
S4, E28: The Beginning Of The End Of Chevron Deference?
The U.S. Supreme Court took up a case this week that could be the end of the road for a nearly 40-year precedent requiring judges to defer to federal...
S4, E27: Justices Tackle Critical Trial Procedure Question
The Supreme Court this week grappled with an important procedural issue – when legal issues need to be reasserted after trial for appeal – that’s a mu...
S4, E26: When Are Online Threats Protected Free Speech?
When do menacing and unsavory statements cross the line from free speech to a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment? That’s the question th...
Special Episode: From Wolf Of Wall Street To First Street
How did some of the world's biggest tech companies come to benefit from a legal supershield making it almost impossible to sue them? The strange saga...
S4, E25: Another Supreme Court Ethics Scandal?
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is once again under scrutiny for potential ethics violations following a bombshell report by ProPublica that he...
S4, E24: Inside A Turbulent Supreme Court With Joan Biskupic
In a new book, veteran Supreme Court journalist Joan Biskupic takes readers into the cloistered chambers of the court from the Trump years to the Dobb...
S4, E23: Could Immigration Law Target 'Abuelita'?
A federal law making it a crime to encourage illegal immigration appeared to set off alarm bells for some Supreme Court justices, who worried during a...
S4, E22: No. 1 Or No. 2? Justices Ask In Potty Humor Case
The nation's most revered courtroom sounded like an elementary school classroom at times Wednesday, as the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court discusse...
S4, E21: How Tom Goldstein Changed The Game
Tom Goldstein is retiring from his U.S. Supreme Court practice after 25 years and more than 40 arguments — but perhaps bigger than his legal imprint i...
S4, E20: What We Learned, And Didn't, From The Student Debt Hearings
The Supreme Court's conservative justices seemed to agree that the Biden administration has exceeded its authority with its massive student debt relie...
S4, E19: BigTech Seems Likely To Keep Immunity, For Now...
The Supreme Court seemed largely interested this week in preserving the broad immunity that tech companies have enjoyed under Section 230 of the Commu...
S4, E18: Supreme Court Lawyers Adapt To Changed Bench
The Supreme Court has replaced nearly half of its members in the last five years. This week, The Term discusses how lawyers who practice there have ad...
S4, E17: How Justice Harlan Became A Civil Rights Hero
When the Supreme Court revoked newly awarded civil rights for freed Black Americans after the Civil War, it was the scion of a Southern slave-holding...
S4, E16: The Jane Roberts Recruiting Story, Explained
A whistleblower has come forward with new details about the lucrative recruitment work that the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts does for large law...
S4, E15: Why Did Justices Duck Attorney-Client Privilege?
At long last, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first two decisions of the Supreme Court this week, but one of them was a curious one-line dismis...
S4, E14: Leaker Unknown After 8 Months, 126 Interviews
Law360's The Term podcast reacts to the news that U.S. Supreme Court investigators have been unable to unmask the identity of the Dobbs leaker after e...
S4, E13: Where Have All The Opinions Gone?
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard just over 30 cases in the first three months of the term, but has yet to decide a single one. Law360's The Term podca...
S4, E12: Do The Justices Need Time Management Training?
The U.S. Supreme Court has recessed for winter break without issuing a single merits opinion in the slowest beginning of a term in years. Meanwhile, a...
S4, E11: Justices Wary Of Novel Election Theory
If Republican lawmakers thought the conservative justices would fully embrace a novel theory stripping state courts of power to review federal electio...
S4, E10: Free Speech Or Discrimination?
The Supreme Court heard more than two hours of arguments Monday in this term's clash between LGBTQ rights and religious business owners, with the just...
S4, E9: Immigration, Corruption And Alito Ethics Intrigue
The Supreme Court heard tense cases over public corruption prosecutions and new deportation guidelines for ICE agents this week, but there was news ou...
S4, E8: Alito Given Hero's Welcome By Conservatives
Overlooked for much of his career, Justice Samuel Alito was the toast of last week's Federalist Society gala for his landmark majority opinion overtur...
S4, E7: Justices Debate Native Homes For Native Kids
The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday as it considered the legality of a 1978 law requiring state family courts to prioritize placing Indian fo...
S4, E6: Trump Taxes And Courtroom Protests
A month after turning away former President Donald Trump's appeal in the Mar-a-Lago document case, the Supreme Court is facing another request from th...
S4, E5: The Grim Fate Of Affirmative Action
Harvard University, the University of North Carolina and various colleges around the country may soon have to reckon with a Supreme Court ruling decla...
S4, E4: Carter Phillips On His Supreme Court Success
The composition of the Supreme Court has changed dramatically since Carter Phillips' first argument in 1982, but his preparation for his 89th argument...
S4, E3: Justices Fear State 'War' Over Morality Laws
A California initiative banning pork sold from sows raised in small confined spaces set off a two-hour debate at the Supreme Court this week, with the...
S4, E2: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Has The Floor
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted off the blocks of her Supreme Court career this week, diving into oral arguments with a rare clarity of purpose...
S4, E1: A New Normal For The Court?
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares for the 2022-2023 term with a slate of new blockbuster cases, fall-out from last term's Dobbs decision and its leak...
S3 FINALE: Lessons From A Historic Supreme Court Term
A Supreme Court term that by any measure was historic has concluded, and it takes a village of podcasters to untangle everything that happened. So thi...