Jimmy Hoover

In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, Jimmy Hoover interviews law professor Neil Seigel about his ongoing scholarship about judicial self-protection and how the Supreme Court has de-escalated conflicts with the Trump administration to preserve its own legitimacy.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has asked the justices to limit the power of federal courts to "vacate" new government regulations on a nationwide basis—a position some justices previously described as "radical" and "extreme."

The Supreme Curt has agreed to hear an appeal from Montgomery County, Maryland, parents that the local school system discriminated against Asian American students with its changes to the admissions criteria for magnet schools.

The Supreme Court said it will review an appeals court ruling that the federal ban on making alcoholic spirits at home exceeds Congress' power to collect taxes.

“That’s why the president, sometimes, has not very nice things to say about the court and its decisions and about some of my particular colleagues… because the court, of course, has pushed back," Kagan said Tuesday.

“That's why the president, sometimes, has not very nice things to say about the court and its decisions and about some of my particular colleagues… because the court, of course, has pushed back," Kagan said Tuesday.

"The most important thing I tell every [airline] client: The worst time to meet me and my team is after the accident occurs," Dombroff said. "Because after the accident occurs, after the event occurs, the incident occurs, they are being pulled in 100 different directions at every level of the company, whether it's the shareholders, whether it's the media, whether it's the current of former employees, whether it's the accident investigators.

In a short order, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration's request to lift an injunction against a new Bureau of Prisons policy refusing gender-affirming care for prisoners with gender dysphoria.

Justice Elena Kagan has drawn comparisons between the “deeply conservative” Roberts Court and the U.S. Supreme Court's most liberal era in the 1950s and ‘60s. She's not alone.

On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, Law reporters Jimmy Hoover and Alyssa Aquino break down the latest week in Supreme Court news, from an emergency order blocking Trump's gender-care ban for trans prisoners to the latest cases added to this term's merits docket.