Cases and Controversies
Bloomberg Law's Cases and Controversies brings you the latest from the Supreme Court. Each week we preview oral arguments at the Court or feature in-depth interviews. We explore critical legal issues with Supreme Court advocates, judges, law professors, lawyers, and legal journalists. Hosts: Kimberly Robinson, Greg Stohr, and Lydia Wheeler.
Episodes
June 30, 2025 • 15 mins
The Supreme Court closed out its term with a string of rulings that divided the justices.
The court split 6-3 along ideological lines in opinions June 27 that limited the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions and gave parents the right to opt their children out of classroom instruction that violates their religious beliefs.
Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Lydia Wheeler dig into the term ...
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June 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Transgender rights suffered a major loss at the US Supreme Court after its opinion in the Skrmetti case. But some advocates for transgender rights found reasons within the opinion to believe their cause might fare better in future cases.
Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Lydia Wheeler get into the details of this opinion on the latest episode of their podcast. They also talk about the other opinions we got from...
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June 13, 2025 • 20 mins
The Supreme Court is chipping away at the mound of argued cases it has to decide before the justices break for summer.
The court has 21 cases left after releasing its latest batch of opinions. Those included a unanimous decision that revived a lawsuit brought by a family against the government after the FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home.
Disputes over a Tennessee ban on gender affirming care for transgender minors and...
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May 30, 2025 • 18 mins
The justices have already had a deluge of emergency requests from the Trump administration, and another is likely to land before them soon involving the president's tariffs.
Lower courts have temporarily ruled against the tariffs using doctrines recently revived by the Supreme Court's conservative majority to frustrate policies of Democratic administrations. The Trump administration has signaled it will bring the case to the hig...
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May 23, 2025 • 29 mins
The Supreme Court's long-awaited order over the president's firing of Democratic members of independent agencies is puzzling, according to the lawyer representing one of the fired individuals.
Gupta Wessler founder Deepak Gupta joins Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Greg Stohr to discuss what the divided court did and did not do in allowing the administration to move forward with the firings.
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May 16, 2025 • 12 mins
The practicalities of birthright citizenship being restricted in some states but not others appeared to be a concern of key justices on the US Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump has asked the justices to narrow lower court rulings that blocked his executive order limiting automatic citizenship to babies born with at least one parent who’s a citizen or permanent resident.
Cases and Controversies hosts Greg Stohr and Lydia W...
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May 9, 2025 • 20 mins
The Supreme Court will sit for a special session May 15 to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order.
The merits, however, are not before justices at this time. Instead, the court will consider the scope of relief temporarily available to the parties, and in particular whether federal district courts can enjoin a policy nationwide as to all persons affected.
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May 2, 2025 • 21 mins
The Supreme Court heard the last in a trio of cases over religious rights with the justices appearing to split long largely ideological lines.
During arguments April 30 in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the justices considered a virtual school's bid to become the nation's first religious charter school.
Cases and Controversies hosts Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Robinson say the case seems to turn on Chief Ju...
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April 27, 2025 • 14 mins
US Supreme Court justices spent a lot of time last week discussing the meaning of LGBTQ-themed books that parents in a Maryland public school district say interfere with the religious rearing of their children.
One book, “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” was a focal point of the April 22 arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The justices questioned whether mere exposure to things a parent disagrees with burdens their religious rights.
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April 18, 2025 • 19 mins
Obamacare is back before the Supreme Court in a challenge to its no-cost coverage requirements for certain preventive health services.
The justices will weigh the constitutionality of the US Preventive Services Task Force, which recommends the tests and treatments insurers should cover, when they return to the bench on Monday for the April sitting.
If the lower court's decision is upheld, "it is possible, given the posture of the...
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April 11, 2025 • 28 mins
The US Supreme Court's attempt to avoid a confrontation with President Donald Trump has real world costs, said Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck.
Vladeck spoke with Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Greg Stohr about the flurry of recent rulings from the justices in emergency requests involving the administration's policies.
The majority of the justices have been careful not to be overly critical of the pr...
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April 4, 2025 • 16 mins
Supreme Court justices from across the ideological spectrum appeared ready to side with a religious group seeking an unemployment tax exemption, in the first of three church-state disputes on tap in coming weeks.
"I thought it was pretty fundamental that we don't treat some religions better than other religions," Justice Elena Kagan said. "And we certainly don't do it based on the content of the religious doctrine that those reli...
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March 28, 2025 • 23 mins
The federal government appeared likely to win a high-stakes appeal over a multibillion-dollar telecommunications fund while securing a win on Biden-era regulations on build-at-home "ghost guns."
Several justices during arguments March 26 in FCC v. Consumers' Research, appeared hesitant to reinvigorate the so-called nondelegation doctrine to strike down the Universal Service Fund. The fund is intended to increase broadband access t...
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March 21, 2025 • 24 mins
The Supreme Court will consider a case at the end of March that could limit Congress’ ability to let federal regulators determine what public health and safety standards are necessary.
Depending on what the court decides, any statute that grants discretion to an agency could be open for re-review, said Jessica Ellsworth, a partner at Hogan Lovells.
"There's probably hundreds of thousands of places in the US code that there are term...
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March 14, 2025 • 29 mins
After a slow start, Supreme Court justices will hear consequential disputes as they head into second half of the term.
"This might be the eye in the storm that this was kind of a bit of a slower term," said Goodwin partner Brian Burgess. "There's some big, big cases ahead."
Burgess highlights cases involving religious rights, Obamacare, and forum shopping with Cases and Controversies hosts Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Robinson.
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March 7, 2025 • 15 mins
A fight over plans for a privately owned nuclear waste storage facility in Texas seemed to divide the US Supreme Court as the justices wrestled with a federal agency’s regulatory authority and who can challenge it.
Cases and Controversies hosts Greg Stohr and Lydia Wheeler unpack Wednesday’s arguments in the dispute over a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license that would have moved as much as 40,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel to a ...
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February 28, 2025 • 24 mins
The US Supreme Court hears argument March 4 in a case over gun industry protections from lawsuits.
The dispute involving Mexico and Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. centers on whether exceptions to the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act open manufacturers to court challenges.
Mexico alleges gunmakers intentionally trade with suppliers for drug cartels and the law allows suits when industry knowingly violates firearms laws in ...
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February 21, 2025 • 18 mins
The Supreme Court- has been pulled into its first dispute over a Trump administration action with more cases likely coming its way.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris asked the justices in an emergency request to toss out a temporary restraining order that stopped President Donald Trump from firing the head of the US Office of Special Counsel.
Lower courts have issued TROs in response to Trump’s executive actions now testing pre...
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February 18, 2025 • 14 mins
The US Supreme Court is confronting the stark reality that, unlike the other two branches of government, the court has no real power to enforce its decisions. Should someone — whether government official or private citizen — refuse to comply, the justices have no army or constitutional spending power to use as a cudgel, Bloomberg Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr writes in a new longform essay.
That age-old quandary is becoming new...
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February 7, 2025 • 19 mins
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a reverse discrimination case when the justices return to the bench at the end of the month.
A heterosexual woman is asking the court to revive her lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services where she's worked since 2004 after the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said she hadn't shown the "background circumstances" necessary to take her case to trial.
The court didn't...
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