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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court's term is winding down. The Court issued

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Speaker 1: several opinions today and there was a first. Justice Neil

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Speaker 1: Gorcich has issued his first Supreme Court opinion, a unanimous

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Speaker 1: decision in favor of a company involved in a debt

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Speaker 1: collection dispute. My co host and Bloomberg Supreme Court reporter

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Speaker 1: Greg's store is at the Court. Greg tell us about

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Speaker 1: the case, Hi, June. Uh, Well, this case has to

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Speaker 1: do with who is a debt collector under this law

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Speaker 1: knows the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, And in particular,

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Speaker 1: it has to do with whether a company that buys

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Speaker 1: a debt from another company meets the definition of debt

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Speaker 1: collector under the law. And the Supreme Court's decision was unanimous.

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Speaker 1: They said, no, that is not what the statute says. Uh.

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Speaker 1: If you buy that from somebody else, you are and

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Speaker 1: you own the debt, you are not a debt collector.

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Speaker 1: And before we go on the breaking news, the second

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Speaker 1: appeals court to rule against Trump's revised travel band. The

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Speaker 1: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its decision against

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Speaker 1: Trump's travel band. That being the uh adding it to

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Speaker 1: the Fourth Circuit's opinion will have more on that later, Greg, Now,

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Speaker 1: some of the justices show more flair for writing than

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Speaker 1: others do um Gorsett started with talking about disruptive dinner

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Speaker 1: time calls. What what about his writing style. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: certainly is a very readable opinion. He did did show,

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Speaker 1: as you said, some flair, and he also spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of time talking about rules of grammar and parts

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Speaker 1: of speech and and uh. To some degree, this case

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Speaker 1: came down to the different difference between the past tense

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Speaker 1: and the past participle um, which of course makes for

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Speaker 1: for fascinating cocktail party conversation. But that that's consistent with

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Speaker 1: the way Neil Grocers has presented themselves as a judge

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Speaker 1: of somebody who cares a lot about statutory text, because that,

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Speaker 1: he says, a job of the courses to interpret what

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Speaker 1: Congress did, not to rewrite the statute the way we'd

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Speaker 1: like it to be written. Now, there was a unanimous

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Speaker 1: opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg where the court

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Speaker 1: rule that federal citizenship rules violate the Constitution. Tell us

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Speaker 1: about that case, Yeah, this is this is a little

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Speaker 1: bit complicated, but but essentially these are people who are

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Speaker 1: born abroad with one parent who's an American and one

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Speaker 1: parent who's not. And what federal law has done was

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Speaker 1: to make it easier for somebody to claim US citizenship

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Speaker 1: if the parent who is an American was the mother. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if she was you know, if if somebody is born

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Speaker 1: to an American mother abroad, Uh, they can become a

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Speaker 1: citizen if she's just spent a year as a resident

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Speaker 1: of the US um sometime before before the birth um

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Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court said, the fact that there's a

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Speaker 1: longer requirement if the father is an American citizen, that

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Speaker 1: is unconstitutional. Uh. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the opinion.

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Speaker 1: She said, hang on a second, let me in this

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Speaker 1: quote because it's good. She called it studying Lee anachronistic um.

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Speaker 1: But she didn't give the plaintiff in the case exactly

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Speaker 1: what he wanted. I'll be happy to explain that to

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Speaker 1: you if you if you want to ask me, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: What did the plantiff want wanted to the plantiff is

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Speaker 1: somebody who wanted to be uh declared a citizen because

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Speaker 1: he's being threatened with deportation after being convicted of a

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Speaker 1: robbery and attempted murder. Uh. And the Supreme Court said No,

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Speaker 1: Normally we would fix the problem in that sort of way,

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Speaker 1: but here it looks like what Congress would have wanted

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Speaker 1: to do would be to make it harder for the

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Speaker 1: children of American mothers born abroad for them to become citizens.

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Speaker 1: So going forward that the court forward, the Court says,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna make it harder for everybody to become a citizen,

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna take care of the equal protection problem

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Speaker 1: that we saw. And unfortunately for Mr Morales Santana, that

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Speaker 1: means he's very likely facing deportation. Now, we just heard

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Speaker 1: that the Ninth Circuit has ruled against Trump in the

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Speaker 1: travel band case, and a big issue before the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court is the travel ban. Where does that stand? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the fascinating timing today. Today is also the day for

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Speaker 1: the challengers to the band to submit their filings to

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. The Trump administration, of course, recently appealed.

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Speaker 1: They've also asked the court to immediately put the travel

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Speaker 1: ban in place. The Supreme Court could act any at

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Speaker 1: any time, although it's I'm surely now going to want

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Speaker 1: Circuit just did the reports are that the Ninth Circuit

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Speaker 1: uh rule against the administration, but the Ninth Circuit, as

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Speaker 1: I understand it at this point, also said that there

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Speaker 1: is nothing that keeps the administration from from reviewing the

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Speaker 1: procedures for allowing people from these countries into the country.

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Speaker 1: And the reason that's important is that was the whole,

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Speaker 1: the whole rationale for the travel ban in the first place.

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Speaker 1: The administration said we had to stop even uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out whether we have have the proper procedures.

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Speaker 1: In the Ninth Circuit said no, you're not stopped from

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Speaker 1: doing that. So that changes the dynamic of the case

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Speaker 1: before the Supreme Court. And Greg just thirty seconds to go,

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Speaker 1: as you know, Um, what's ahead for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the term, Well, if we could have some news on

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Speaker 1: the travel ban, that's the big thing everybody is watching.

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Speaker 1: We have a big Church State case that we're also watching. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's a First Amendment case involving sex offenders. There's a

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Speaker 1: case involving a cross border shooting. So there are some

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Speaker 1: significant constitutional cases as well, but the travel ban is

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Speaker 1: really the main event. Watching to see how the court

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Speaker 1: handles that. All right, we know that you are there

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Speaker 1: watching for us. Thanks, so much that's Bloomberg News, Supreme Court,

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