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The Term is a podcast from Law360 for the busy U.S. Supreme Court watcher. Give us about 15 minutes each week and we'll catch you up on all the big action at the nation's highest court, along with a list of what to watch in the coming sessions. Hosts senior Supreme Court reporter Jimmy Hoover in Washington, D.C. and editor-at-large Natalie Rodriguez in New York City cut through a busy docket to focus on the key cases and developments everyone will be talking about.

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A whistleblower has come forward with new details about the lucrative recruitment work that the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts does for large law firms, including some with prolific Supreme Court practices. On this week's episode of The Term ...

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02.03.2023 S4, E16: The Jane Roberts Recruiting Story, Explained A whistleblower has come forward with new details about the lucrative recruitment work that the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts does for large law firms, including some with prolific Supreme Court practices. On this week's episode of The Term ...
01.27.2023 S4, E15: Why Did Justices Duck Attorney-Client Privilege? At long last, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first two decisions of the Supreme Court this week, but one of them was a curious one-line dismissal of a case argued just weeks ago. Law360's The Term examines the ...
01.20.2023 S4, E14: Leaker Unknown After 8 Months, 126 Interviews Law360's The Term podcast reacts to the news that U.S. Supreme Court investigators have been unable to unmask the identity of the Dobbs leaker after eight months of investigation on this week's episode. Plus, a breakdown of this week's thorny ...
01.12.2023 S4, E13: Where Have All The Opinions Gone? The U.S. Supreme Court has heard just over 30 cases in the first three months of the term, but has yet to decide a single one. Law360's The Term podcast discusses the historically slow start to the term, as well ...
12.16.2022 S4, E12: Do The Justices Need Time Management Training? The U.S. Supreme Court has recessed for winter break without issuing a single merits opinion in the slowest beginning of a term in years. Meanwhile, arguments are longer than they've been in decades. In its year-end episode, Law360's The Term ...
12.09.2022 S4, E11: Justices Wary Of Novel Election Theory If Republican lawmakers thought the conservative justices would fully embrace a novel theory stripping state courts of power to review federal election rules, Wednesday's oral arguments at the Supreme Court was a tough wake-up call. Law360's The Term breaks down ...
12.06.2022 S4, E10: Free Speech Or Discrimination? The Supreme Court heard more than two hours of arguments Monday in this term's clash between LGBTQ rights and religious business owners, with the justices struggling to draw lines between free speech and discrimination. Law360's The Term recaps the hearing ...
12.01.2022 S4, E9: Immigration, Corruption And Alito Ethics Intrigue The Supreme Court heard tense cases over public corruption prosecutions and new deportation guidelines for ICE agents this week, but there was news outside the courtroom as well when the court's in-house lawyer rejected allegations that Justice Samuel Alito divulged ...
11.17.2022 S4, E8: Alito Given Hero's Welcome By Conservatives Overlooked for much of his career, Justice Samuel Alito was the toast of last week's Federalist Society gala for his landmark majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Law360's The Term discusses the justice's moment in the spotlight and the fast-moving ...
11.10.2022 S4, E7: Justices Debate Native Homes For Native Kids The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday as it considered the legality of a 1978 law requiring state family courts to prioritize placing Indian foster children with native households. Law360's The Term recaps the 3-hour hearing on the Indian Child Welfare ...
11.03.2022 S4, E6: Trump Taxes And Courtroom Protests A month after turning away former President Donald Trump's appeal in the Mar-a-Lago document case, the Supreme Court is facing another request from the last occupant of the White House: shield his tax returns from House Democrats. Law360's "The Term" ...
10.31.2022 S4, E5: The Grim Fate Of Affirmative Action Harvard University, the University of North Carolina and various colleges around the country may soon have to reckon with a Supreme Court ruling declaring their race-conscious admissions policies to be unlawful, judging by the tone of Monday's oral arguments on ...
10.27.2022 S4, E4: Carter Phillips On His Supreme Court Success The composition of the Supreme Court has changed dramatically since Carter Phillips' first argument in 1982, but his preparation for his 89th argument next month will be largely the same. The Sidley Austin partner spoke to Law360's The Term this ...
10.13.2022 S4, E3: Justices Fear State 'War' Over Morality Laws A California initiative banning pork sold from sows raised in small confined spaces set off a two-hour debate at the Supreme Court this week, with the justices concerned about an escalatory "war" of morality laws between states with different political ...
10.07.2022 S4, E2: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Has The Floor Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted off the blocks of her Supreme Court career this week, diving into oral arguments with a rare clarity of purpose for a new court member. Law360's The Term breaks down her enthusiastic start on this ...
09.30.2022 S4, E1: A New Normal For The Court? As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares for the 2022-2023 term with a slate of new blockbuster cases, fall-out from last term's Dobbs decision and its leaked draft is still reverberating. While pandemic-era restrictions at the court are loosening, the hosts ...
07.02.2022 S3 FINALE: Lessons From A Historic Supreme Court Term A Supreme Court term that by any measure was historic has concluded, and it takes a village of podcasters to untangle everything that happened. So this week, hosts from Pro Say team up with the hosts of The Term to ...
06.30.2022 S3, E36: A Stinging Blow To The EPA's Power On Climate Thursday's swearing in of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African American woman on the U.S. Supreme Court made history, but it was arguably the court's decision, just hours before, to curb the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to impose ...
06.24.2022 Special Episode: 50 Years Of Abortion Rights, Overturned On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and upheld a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. In this special episode, Law360's The Term breaks down the historic ruling and its potential impacts with constitutional scholar ...
06.23.2022 S3, E35: A Constitutional Right To Public Carry States that require applicants to show a heightened need to obtain a license to carry firearms are violating the Constitution, the Supreme Court said in a blockbuster gun rights decision expanding the Second Amendment to outside the home. Law360's The ...
06.17.2022 S3, E34: Just Like That, Justices Back On Track Handing down 11 opinions this week, the justices took a sizable bite out of its backlog and seem determined to wrap up its work on time before summer recess. From double jeopardy to immigration law, Law360's The Term explores the ...
06.09.2022 S3, E33: Kavanaugh Threat Casts Pall On Final Stretch The Supreme Court is entering its blockbuster final stretch with just under 30 cases to go before summer recess, but the arrest this week of a man allegedly threatening to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh has refocused attention on the personal ...
06.02.2022 S3, E32: White Collar Atty To High Court Clerks—Lawyer Up With a report that the Supreme Court marshal is demanding cell records and affidavits from law clerks to find the source of the leaked abortion draft opinion, a veteran white collar defense lawyer joins Law360's The Term podcast on what ...
05.26.2022 S3, E31: Supreme Court Limits Ineffective Counsel Claims The Supreme Court has long held that ineffective assistance of counsel gives rise to a Sixth Amendment claim, but what happens when the lawyers tasked with making such a claim are themselves ineffective? On this week’s episode of The Term ...
05.19.2022 S3, E30: Self-Financing Political Campaigns Just Got Easier The Supreme Court has eliminated much of the risks associated with congressional candidates lending to their own political campaigns. This week on The Term, we’re discussing the court’s decision to strike down loan repayment restrictions passed 20 years ago to ...
05.12.2022 S3, E29: Amid Leak Protests, Justices Get Security Boosted This week, Law360's The Term podcast discusses the continued fallout over last week's leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, including additional security for justices who are now facing protests of a much more personal nature—outside their homes. Plus, the ...
05.05.2022 S3, E28: How Alito Wields Abortion History To End Roe Justice Samuel Alito based his draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade on the idea that abortion rights are not "deeply rooted" in the nation's history. On this week's episode of The Term, we welcome constitutional scholar and Stanford Law Professor ...
04.28.2022 S3, E27: Oklahoma Says Supreme Court Ruling Caused Crisis This week, Law360's The Term podcast discusses Oklahoma's attempt to contain the fallout from a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that classified a huge swath of the state as Indian Country. Plus, should the Biden administration have to continue a Trump ...
04.22.2022 S3, E26: Narrative Or Fact? The Case Of The Praying Coach Was a Washington high school football coach simply exercising his First Amendment rights when he prayed after games at the 50-yard line? Or was he actually pressuring students into joining him as a public school employee? The Supreme Court will ...
04.07.2022 S3, E25: Judge Jackson Clinches High Court Seat A historic confirmation. More shadow docket drama. Plus, what Justice Amy Coney Barrett is telling Americans to do before reacting to the blockbuster opinion season coming up. On this week’s episode of The Term we’re catching up on a busy ...
03.31.2022 S3, E24: Near 100, Federal Arbitration Act Timely As Ever It was a banner week for the Federal Arbitration Act in the U.S. Supreme Court this week, as the justices examined the nearly 100-year-old law in multiple cases, including one with huge ramifications for the nation's most populous state of ...
03.24.2022 S3, E23: Ketanji Brown Jackson Faces The Senate Four days. Emotional moments. Fierce partisanship. D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made it through the crucible of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, withstanding more than 20 hours of questioning from lawmakers. On this week’s episode of The Term ...
03.17.2022 S3, E22: The Push To Make The Court More Transparent The U.S. Supreme Court is famously slow to embrace change, but its experiment with live audio during the pandemic has been hailed by lawyers and court watchers as a success. This week, Law360's The Term speaks with Gabe Roth of ...
03.11.2022 S3, E21: Who Gets To Draw Congressional Maps? The U.S. Supreme Court turned away Republican challenges to court-ordered congressional maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, but a growing number of justices are showing interest in a novel legal theory that curbs the power of state courts to draw ...
03.04.2022 S3, E20: Tsarnaev Had 'Fair Trial' Before Death Sentence We saw an uptick in opinions from the Supreme Court this week, and we're discussing all four of the decisions that were handed down on this week's episode of The Term, including the Boston bomber's reinstated death sentence and the ...
03.02.2022 S3, E19: Ketanji Brown Jackson In Her Own Words From being Matt Damon's scene partner as an undergrad to getting swamped with 150 cases as a rookie judge, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has publicly shared a number of stories over the years from her life and career ...
02.24.2022 S3, E18: Agency Power At Stake In EPA Case The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate against climate change at a highly-anticipated hearing on Monday. On this week’s episode of The Term, we explore how the case could affect the ability ...
02.18.2022 S3, E17: 'SCOTUS Sweepstakes' Heat Up As the White House continues vetting candidates for Justice Stephen Breyer's Supreme Court seat, the delicate D.C. dance of lobbying for certain individuals is well underway. On this week’s “SCOTUS Sweepstakes” episode of The Term, we take a closer look ...
02.10.2022 S3, E16: Tensions Rise Over Alabama Voting Rights Frustrations boiled over at the Supreme Court this week in a Voting Rights Act decision Monday that Justice Elena Kagan called a “disservice to Black Alabamians” and a further abuse of the court’s emergency docket, prompting a heated response from ...
02.03.2022 S3, E15: Can Harvard Save Affirmative Action? The Harvard admissions case taken up by the Supreme Court could see the court's conservative majority overrule more than 40 years of precedent by ending affirmative action in higher education. Can America's preeminent school save its race-conscious admissions process? On ...
01.28.2022 S3, E14: Breyer's Legacy And The Nomination To Come Justice Stephen Breyer on Thursday formally announced he would be retiring at the end of the Supreme Court term. On this week’s episode, The Term breaks down the legacy he will leave behind and takes a look at what lays ...
01.20.2022 S3, E13: Three First Amendment Fights The Supreme Court this week agreed to hear the case of a high school football coach who prayed with students, weighed whether Boston could refuse to fly a Christian-themed flag, and debated Ted Cruz's challenge to campaign finance law. On ...
01.07.2022 S3, E12: Justices Scrutinize Biden Admin's Vaccine Rules The Supreme Court heard two emergency appeals Friday on whether to allow the Biden administration to impose vaccination or testing requirements on huge swaths of the American workforce. On this week’s episode of The Term, senior employment reporter Vin Gurrieri ...
12.17.2021 S3, E11: How’s It Going At The Supreme Court So Far? With the year drawing to a close and the justices on break for the holiday, we’re taking the opportunity to look at how the first three months of the Supreme Court term have gone so far. On this week’s episode ...
12.09.2021 S3, E10: A First Amendment Fight Over Maine’s School Subsidies Discrimination or church-state separation? That was the question the Supreme Court justices debated this week in a blockbuster First Amendment case over a Maine private school subsidy program that excludes "sectarian" schools. Law360's The Term dives into the arguments on ...
12.02.2021 S3, E9: Key Moments From Hearing On Fate Of Roe The Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, but how far will the justices go in scaling back abortion rights? Law360's The Term analyzes the key moments from Wednesday's hearing that could decide the fate of Roe ...
11.18.2021 S3, E8: Michael Dreeben On Arguing 106 Supreme Court Cases Arguing before the Supreme Court is considered a privilege to most lawyers—a privilege longtime former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben has had over 100 times. This week on The Term podcast, Dreeben discusses his most memorable moments at the lectern ...
11.11.2021 S3, E7: Can The U.S. Gov't Deny Benefits To Puerto Ricans? The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether residents of Puerto Rico should be eligible for federal disability benefits in a case that examines the island's unique status in the eyes of the United States government. On this week's episode of ...
11.05.2021 S3, E6: The Right To 'Bear Arms' In Public The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems likely to strike down New York's century-old restrictions on carrying firearms in public, but it's unclear what limits the court will set to keep guns out of "sensitive" places. Law360's The Term examines this ...
10.29.2021 S3, E5: The Abortion Hearings No One Saw Coming It was finally the Second Amendment's turn to steal the show at the Supreme Court next week—until the justices caught court watchers by surprise by adding a pair of explosive cases over Texas' 6-week abortion ban to Monday's docket. On ...

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