So why do you want to start today?

So why don't we talk a little bit about the Supreme Court term that just ended?

Yeah. They finished really late in July.

They normally finish around the end of June or something like that, but you know it was a weird

Supreme Court term all around. They had remote oral argument. It wasn't by Zoom. It was by telephone.

Today the Supreme Court was in session,

but you could hardly tell by the relative quiet

outside the courthouse.

We'll hear an argument this morning.

Instead, it was the voice of Chief Justice John Roberts that kicked off today's oral arguments over the phone.

Case 1946, the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

We were waiting around for some really big cases so I thought we could talk today a little

bit about a couple of the really big ones that were decided. Yeah great let's go for it.

This is what Trump can teach us about Khan Law, an ongoing monthly series of indefinite length where we take the tweets and legal challenges to the 45th

president of the United States

and use them to examine our Constitution

like we never have before.

Our music is from Doomtree Records.

Our professor and neighbor is Elizabeth Joe.

And I'm your fellow remote learning student and host Roman Mars.

So let's think about it this way. There's a one useful way to think about how powerful the Supreme Court is.

And the court is empowered to decide matters of all federal law.

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