logo
episode-header-image
Jun 2023
35m 13s

Supreme Court Expands Power and FTC Sues...

bloomberg
About this episode

Bloomberg's Madison Mills speaks with Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr about how a conservative supermajority on the court is remaking US laws on the environment, health and firearms. Plus, Spencer Soper explains why the FTC is going after Amazon. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Up next
Yesterday
Trump Moves to Fire Fed Governor & Threatens Chicago
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses President Trump firing Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and threatening to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. Anne Joseph O’Connell, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses a judge rejecting Trump’s ap ... Show More
41m 6s
Aug 26
SCOTUS Allows Cuts of Millions in Research Grants
Constitutional law professor David Super of Georgetown Law, discusses the Supreme Court allowing the Trump administration to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants. Shawn Collins, a partner at Stradling, discusses the FTC suing LA Fitness over customer’s diffi ... Show More
33m 53s
Aug 22
Weekend Law: Voting by Mail, Unions Back Off & Sandwich Guy
June Grasso talks to the experts about the top legal stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 
37m 51s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 2021
The Supreme Court’s Charm Offensive
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Melissa Murray, Leah Litman, and Kate Shaw of the Strict Scrutiny podcast for a special Supreme Court term kick-off panel recorded at the Texas Tribune Festival. They tackle the big-ticket items facing the high court: abortion, guns, and maybe affirma ... Show More
41m 49s
Jan 2023
What’s Next for the Supreme Court? - Beyond the Scenes
Last term, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, limited the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, and kicked gun issues back to the state level, overruling years of precedent and going against public opinion. Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show supervising producer ... Show More
56m 40s
Apr 2023
The Supreme Court’s Conflict of Interest Problem
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made headlines when it was revealed that he had not disclosed his luxury vacations with Republican donor Harlan Crow. But this is just the tip of the conflict of interest iceberg for the Supreme Court. Nicole breaks down the truly shocking et ... Show More
10m 26s
May 2023
The Supreme Court’s corruption crisis
In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the co ... Show More
26m 5s
Jun 2019
A Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin and Nancy Gertner
An in-depth, but somewhat snarky, look at the Trump administration’s success in packing the courts with right-wing, Federalist Society judges. Gertner, a Harvard Law professor, and Toobin, CNN chief legal analyst, discuss some of the most cynical, activist decisions by the Robert ... Show More
43m 17s
Oct 2021
The Most Important Supreme Court Term in Decades
The latest term of the U.S. Supreme Court will include blockbuster cases on two of the most contentious topics in American life: abortion and gun rights.The cases come at a time when the court has a majority of Republican appointees and as it battles accusations of politicization ... Show More
22m 47s
Sep 2023
Government Shutdown Nears; More Legal Trouble for Trump
Your morning briefing. The news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: 1) Government Shutdown Nears as Lawmakers Make Incremental Gains 2) Trump Found Liable for Fraud in NY Attorney General’s Case 3) Interview with FTC Chief Suing Amazon  See omnystudio.com/listener fo ... Show More
16m 46s
Aug 2022
The Supreme Court's power grab
Sean Illing talks with Harvard Law professor Nikolas Bowie about the U.S. Supreme Court's recently-concluded term, which produced landmark opinions restricting the power of the EPA, expanding gun rights, and overturning Roe v. Wade. They discuss how the conservative court's argum ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2021
Sonia Sotomayor - "Just Ask!" & Life as a Supreme Court Justice
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discusses her children's book "Just Ask!" and the reality of being a member of the Supreme Court. Originally aired September 2019. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ... Show More
23m 1s
Listen to millions of songs and podcasts on Anghami