Nina Totenberg

The elephant in the room, he says, is Donald Trump and his executive orders.

Attorney General McCuskey replies that sports are unique.

Not everyone agrees with that limited objective.

John Bursch of the conservative alliance defending freedom is one of the lawyers representing Idaho in the college sports case.

As far as we know, there's only one, and it's Becky.

Thank you.

When the high court announced earlier this week that it would hand down opinions today, word spread like wildfire that the court would announce a decision on the legality of Trump's tariffs, and newsrooms went on red alert.

But when Justice Sonia Sotomayor leaned forward to read her opinion today...

She looked over at the slew of Trump administration lawyers in the courtroom and observed, seeing who's here today, it's not the case you thought.

So true.

The opinion was about prisoners' rights.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

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.

The Trump plan overturns policies adopted by six previous administrations, including his own first term, that allowed what the plaintiffs say was their ability to list on their passports what they refer to as their apparent transgender identity instead of their sex at birth.

But in the second administration, Trump reversed course, allowing only the designation of a person's sex at birth.

Transgender passport applicants went to court, contending the new rule amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination.