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mexico while their asylum cases are under review. so what do these major rulings say about the direction of the court, and what can we expect for the next term? ilya shapiro is author of "supreme disorder," which is available on paperback on tuesday. ilya, welcome. good to see you here. historic term for the supreme court. did the court surprise you with its ending? >> the court finally colessed; has, the conservative majority that has long been promised, expected, feared, vaunted finally came together this term. and i don't know whether it was terribly surprising, but it was a littl...

The core of a functioning american republic. paul: and, kyle, the religious liberty case is particularly interesting. there's an old test called the lemon test, i don't want to get into the details, but that's gone now totally. and there's kind of a restoration of a more proper balance between the establishment, the ban on the establishment of religion and the command that government must allow the free exercise of religion. why don't you expand on that. >> yeah, sure. i mean, two big cases were one involving maine's school choice program, saying that it can't exclude religious schools, and th...

In public this this many ways you personally may not agree with, and you go along and get along. he said similar about this flag, that is outside bossen on the city hall, and they normally allow groups to raise flags, but not a christian group. that they denied that request. and justice gorsuch said in that case that the point of these clauses in the first amendment is not to drive religion out of public life. and i think if you think practically, we know that. all your money says in god we trust on it. the senate chaplain says that every senate session has opened with a prayer since founding ...