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Speaker 1: At the beginning of its term. This month, the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court was scheduled to hear two cases challenging President Trump's

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Speaker 1: travel ban, which he had issued earlier this year. After

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Speaker 1: President Trump issued what is the third version of that ban,

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Speaker 1: uh not too long ago. The Court dismissed one of

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Speaker 1: the challenges that was about two weeks ago, and yesterday

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Speaker 1: had dismissed the other and vacated a lower federal appeals

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Speaker 1: court's ruling against the band. But in other newer cases,

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Speaker 1: federal judges have already issued orders in joining this newest

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Speaker 1: version of the president's orders. Here to talk with us

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Speaker 1: about what the Supreme Court did and what we can

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Speaker 1: expect going forward, is our Bloomberg Law co host and

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Supreme Court reporter Greg Store. Greg. The Court had

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Speaker 1: this issue squarely before it about the president's powers to

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Speaker 1: issue this sort of this sort of order and whether

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Speaker 1: the um you know, whether there could be constitutional statutory

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Speaker 1: challenges to it, and now it's dismissed both case. Is

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Speaker 1: was this expected? Yeah, Michael, this was expected, certainly foreshadowed

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Speaker 1: by the Court dismissing the other case a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Basically, it's because the case that was before

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Speaker 1: the Court was about this temporary policy that has now

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Speaker 1: completely expired. The last provision of it involving restrictions on

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Speaker 1: refugees expired yesterday, and the Trump administration has now put

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Speaker 1: in place a different policy that allows some refugee admissions

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Speaker 1: but with some pretty strict screening rules. So there wasn't

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Speaker 1: anything left for the Supreme Court to decide in this

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Speaker 1: particular case. So greg the Court also vacated the decision,

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Speaker 1: the decision under appeal, which was from the United States

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Speaker 1: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, meaning it can't

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Speaker 1: be used as precedent and dissented from that. Can now

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Speaker 1: the administration use that to try to block in some

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Speaker 1: way the order by the Honolulu judge which relied on

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Speaker 1: the Ninth Circuit. Yeah, they certainly could try to do

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Speaker 1: that June. Now they've already appealed that ruling. So exactly

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Speaker 1: where that would play out is in clear um. Certainly

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Speaker 1: one would expect that to come up to some degree.

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Speaker 1: That being said, even without that precedent, Uh, there's not

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of reason to think that either the

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Speaker 1: district judge or the Ninth Circuit would really view the

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Speaker 1: case differently. Remember, Uh, these are uh, two courts that

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Speaker 1: already ruled on the earlier policy and and already have

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Speaker 1: some some views about whether what the president did uh

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Speaker 1: is legal. So Greg, with the court having you know, it,

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Speaker 1: seems to have been clearing the way here for the

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Speaker 1: lower courts to continue looking at this. What what do

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Speaker 1: we know is going to happen now as it winds

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Speaker 1: through the courts? Well, Uh, it's now before two federal

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Speaker 1: appeals courts. The administration has appealed the two district judge

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Speaker 1: orders there, and so the next action probably will be there,

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Speaker 1: unless the Ninth Circuit decides to kick it back to

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Speaker 1: Judge Watson along the lines of what Joma was suggesting. Um,

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Speaker 1: it may come back up to the Supreme Court fairly quickly. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, at the moment, this is all emergency stuff,

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Speaker 1: and one could imagine if those lower courts refused to

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Speaker 1: let the policy of the travel ban go into effect,

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Speaker 1: you could see the the Trump administration coming back to

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court very quickly, and so within really a

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Speaker 1: matter of weeks we could get more Supreme Court action. So,

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Speaker 1: speaking of Supreme Court action, the justices are back in

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Speaker 1: action next week. What are some of the One of

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Speaker 1: the big cases coming up, well, the biggest case that

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Speaker 1: they have coming up in this next round of arguments

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Speaker 1: they hear arguments over the course of two weeks is

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Speaker 1: one that will actually be the following week and has

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Speaker 1: to do with Ohio rules UH that purge people from

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Speaker 1: the voter registration rules if they haven't voted in several

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Speaker 1: years and don't respond to a notice. Groups are challenging that,

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Speaker 1: saying it's UH a form of voter suppression and in

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Speaker 1: violation of federal law. Of the federal law that we

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Speaker 1: commonly call the motor voter law says that you cannot

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Speaker 1: states cannot take somebody off the rolls up because they

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Speaker 1: didn't vote. Greg You know, the question of voter participation

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Speaker 1: and gerrymandering and all the things that go into our

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Speaker 1: elections has become quite partisan over the last few years.

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Speaker 1: Does the court breakdown, I mean, I know it's hard

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Speaker 1: to read he leaves even advance of arguments, But does

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Speaker 1: the court breakdown in the same sort of liberal versus

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Speaker 1: conservative way on voting matters as we expect that a

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Speaker 1: lot of the controversial issues and not in every case, Michael,

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Speaker 1: but generally yes, when there's gonna be a fault line.

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Speaker 1: It is that that usual fault line that has the

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Speaker 1: courts Democratic appointees on one side, there four of them,

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Speaker 1: and the courts Republican appointees on the other side. And

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Speaker 1: occasionally the Democratic appointees can win over either Anthony Kennedy

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Speaker 1: or John Roberts. But in general, yes, this is an

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Speaker 1: issue that divides the Court much like it divides to

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Speaker 1: the rest of the country. Anthony Kennedy has the swing vote.

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Speaker 1: What a novel and unique situation. Shock the I say,

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court, you never see that happen. Thank you to

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Speaker 1: Greg's store, our Bloomberg Law co host and Bloomberg News

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court reporter for being with us here on the

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Speaker 1: show today. Coming up on Bloomberg Law, we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking about the Department of Justice guidance on so called

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Speaker 1: sneak and peak warrants, in which the government for years

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Speaker 1: now has been asking computer companies not to tell you

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Speaker 1: get search warrants for your data and information that's stored

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Speaker 1: in the cloud. The Justice Department is cutting way back

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Speaker 1: on that