U.S. Supreme Court Ends Its Term

The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2022-2023 term on Friday. Three "blockbuster" decisions involving affirmative action, student loan relief and services to same-sex couples were handed down in the final days of the term. NPR reports on these developments. The longest report, 12+ minutes, presents the affirmative action case.

It has two separate pieces about the same-sex wedding website case, a general presentation (5 min. 41 sec.) of the ruling and another concentrating on Justice Sonia Sotomayor's blistering dissent (4 min. 35 sec.)

Student loan relief problems might be hard for non-Americans to understand, but over 40 million Americans carry student loans. NPR has a piece about what this decision means for borrowers (4 min. 57 sec.). NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg's analysis of the legal arguments, with no audio, can be found here.

Other important decisions were also handed down this week. Totenberg explains one involving who has the last word on organising federal elections (5 min. 17 sec.).

More from NPR on SCOTUS here (11 min. 48 sec., transcript available).