The surprising ways the Supreme Court curbed Trump’s power

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm David Green, in for Shamita Basu.

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  Today, how the Supreme Court really operates.

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  The Supreme Court is on summer recess after a busy term,

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  dropping major decisions on issues from presidential power to voting rights to birthright citizenship.

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  And we are now starting to grapple with how their rulings

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  will play out and potentially reshape the country as we've known it.

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  And those decisions weren't easy for the court to make.

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  These are hard questions of law.

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  And they struggle and they vote and they write and sometimes the votes change.

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  That is Sarah Isger.

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  She is a legal analyst and a Supreme Court watcher.

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  So it can be contentious and heated and all of those things, but they are colleagues.

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  Justice Barrett has said it's an arranged marriage with no option for divorce.

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  Sarah is the editor of SCOTUS Blog, the co-host of the podcast Advisory Opinions,

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  and the author of a book called Last Branch Standing,

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  a potentially surprising, occasionally witty journey inside today's Supreme Court.

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  She also represents the conservative viewpoint on a public radio podcast I host called Left, Right and Center.

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  I always love talking to Sarah, and I wanted to sit down with her to unpack

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  what some of these decisions we've been seeing in the headlines actually mean.

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