Nina Totenberg

At issue is a Trump administration policy that bars immigration judges from making any public remarks in their personal capacity about immigration or the agency that employs them, unless the remarks are cleared first by administration officials.

The judges, who are employees of the Justice Department, challenge the policy as a violation of their right to free speech and

And when they won an interim victory in a federal appeals court, the administration promptly went to the Supreme Court, warning the justices of dire consequences if they didn't intervene.

But in an unexpected action, the court, with no noted dissents, let the immigration judge's case go forward, at least for now.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

When the law was passed in 1965, there were just 12 minority House members.

Today, there are 134 Black, Hispanic, and Asian American House members.

That could change, however, if the court removes the guardrails to redistricting that it endorsed as recently as two years ago.

Indeed, if the conservative majority either nullifies the redistricting provision of the law or makes it much more difficult to enforce,

Democrats could lose as many as 19 congressional seats, putting control of the House effectively out of reach for the foreseeable future.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

Supporters of conversion therapy contend that it succeeds in curing a person's attraction to the same sex, in other words, making a gay person straight, and similarly, curing a person's desire to change their gender identity.

And they argue that barring licensed therapists from using

conversion therapy when it's purely talk therapy violates the First Amendment right to free speech.

But half the states have enacted these bans, and every major medical association opposes the therapy on grounds that it leads to deep depression and suicidal thoughts in minors.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

The term marks something of a showdown in which President Trump is trying to greatly expand his presidential powers by, among other things, limiting birthright citizenship and expanding his ability to fire the members of independent regulatory agencies.

While he faces an uphill battle on birthright, the conservative court seems likely to overturn a century-old precedent that barred the firing of independent regulatory agency commissioners

before their terms were over and without cause.

That would mean that the agencies that Congress established to be independent nearly a century ago would now be subject to presidential control.