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In 1943, in what would become one of the most famous opinions in the First Amendment canon, Justice Robert H. Jackson described the difficult task that courts faced when asked to apply the federal constitution’s rights guarantees to a world radically transformed from the one the Framers had encountered. The profound economic, social and political changes of the intervening hundred and fifty years, Jackson wrote in West Virginia State Board of Education v.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Friday curbs federal judges’ powers to issue nationwide injunctions — clearing the way for President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The court’s decision did not address the constitutionality of the order, but it stops judges from being able to freeze the policy.

Fix the Court Executive Director Gabe Roth and University of Chicago Law School Robert Newman Reid Professor of Law Alison LaCroix return to discuss the significance of recent and upcoming SCOTUS decisions.

Magna Legal Services Litigation Consultant Dr. Sarah Wellard provides insight into the Karen Read verdict.

Journalist Jillian Lederman identifies how cheating at law schools is spreading.