SCOTUS on Presidential Immunity    

On the last day of this term (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark opinion (6-3) expanding presidential immunity. The dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor is fiery. 

NPR's coverage includes a 4 minute episode on All Things Considered by Nina Totenberg - transcript available, a 10 minute one on Morning Edition - transcript available and a 16 minute one on Consider This.

PBS NewsHour has an interview with historian Heather Cox Richardson who explains what a revolution this decision is in American law. 6 min. transcript available.

SCOTUS - end of term

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down the last cases for the October 2019 term. You can find NPR's Nina Totenberg and attorney Tom Goldstein's summary of the Court's year here. 5 min. 36 sec., transcript available soon.
PBS has a summary of the Supreme Court's term here in a video interviewing Paul Clement, Neal Katyal,  and Marcia Coyle, 9 min., 15 sec. transcript available.

Reports of some individual cases decided as the term ended can be found elsewhere on NPR:

• Teachers at religious schools aren't protected by fair employment laws (5 min. 14 sec., transcript available).
• President Trump's claim of absolute immunity under the law is rejected (5 min, 12 sec., transcript available). 
• Nearly half of the state of Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation (4 min., 14 sec., transcript available). 

More on the Oklahoma case from PBS (video) can be found here (4 min. 54 sec., transcript available).

A New Year at the U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court traditionally begins its year (or term) on the first Monday of October. This year promises to be full of « blockbuster » decisions - on gay rights, abortion, guns, the separation of church and state and, of course, presidential power. NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg has this presentation. 4 min. 33 sec., transcript available.
Here is Totenberg's presentation of one of the first cases this term which examines whether the federal law that bars sex discrimination in employment applies to LGBTQ employees. 6 min. 52 sec.