SCOTUS Considers Race and Voting Rights, LGBTQ 'Conversion' Law

The Supreme Court has, over the past few years, opted to grant the federal government and the executive branch more and more leeway.

On Today's Show: Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019) previews the cases the Supreme Court will take up in its new term, including a redistricting case they are hearing arguments on this week, and offers analysis of just how much presidential power the court will afford to President Trump in upcoming decisions.