James Romoser

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123 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 25 Aug

James Romoser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Journal. · The Supreme Court and Trump: From Birthright to Presidential Power · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And so I expect the court to continue to hand down important decisions throughout the summer.

And then, of course, in early October, they'll be back on the bench for what's already shaping up to be another blockbuster term.

Not much of a break now.

You're very welcome.

Thanks for having me.

WSJ What’s News · With Homeownership Out of Reach, Some Are Choosing to Rent Forever · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

When Trump returned to office last year, there were 17 countries that had protections under TPS.

Trump moved to revoke the TPS protections from 13 of those 17 countries.

The Haiti and Syria cases are the two that arrived on appeal at the Supreme Court, and those are the decisions that came today.

What it means immediately is that Trump can end TPS status for about 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and about 6,000 immigrants from Syria.

It also will likely pave the way for him to revoke TPS protections for a number of other countries that have had it.

What the court said in that case is that the administration is allowed to essentially bar people from stepping foot onto U.S.

soil where they would have the right to claim asylum.

So the two decisions taken in tandem, the TPS case and the asylum case, have the effect of broadening Trump's authority to enact his second term immigration crackdown.

WSJ What’s News · Fed Holds Rates Steady and Ends the Powell Era Deeply Divided · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

Essentially what they can do as a result of this ruling is eliminate districts that have a majority of Black voters and then disperse those Black voters into other districts that would be dominated by white voters.

The longstanding interpretation of the Voting Rights Act has been that it prevents what's known as vote dilution,

Vote dilution is reducing the power of minority communities to elect their preferred candidates, which in many cases are minority candidates.

In practice, what that has meant is that when there are a sufficient number of minority voters in a state, the state is essentially forced to draw some voting districts that contain a majority of minority voters.

Majority of black voters usually, sometimes a majority of Hispanic or Asian voters.

And what the Supreme Court did is it said that using the Voting Rights Act in a way that is meant to protect minority voting power is itself unconstitutional.

And that compliance with the Voting Rights Act is not an adequate justification for race-conscious redistricting.

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