Etan Patz Murder Conviction Reinstated & Upcoming SCOTUS Cases | Bloomberg Law
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Six-year-old Eton Pates was the first
missing child to appear on milk cartons.
His disappearance in 1979 sparked a
nationwide campaign to find missing
children. But Pates was never found and
his case went unsolved for more than a
decade. It wasn't until 2017 that Pedro
Hernandez was convicted of his murder
and kidnapping and sentenced to 25 years
to life in prison. But the case didn't
end there. New York appellet courts
affirmed his conviction. But last year,
the Second Circuit Federal Appeals Court
reversed and ordered a new trial for
Hernandez because of the way the trial
judge had answered a question from
jurors. But today, the Supreme Court
reversed the second circuit and
reinstated the murder conviction against
Hernandez, finding federal courts
shouldn't second guessess state courts.
My guest is former Manhattan prosecutor
and criminal defense attorney Paul Kalen
of councel at Adelman and Adelman. Paul,
tell us about the disappearance of Eton
Pates. The six-year-old was kidnapped
off the streets of New York in 1979 and
he became the poster child for missing
children. I think to this day,
>> you're absolutely right about that. As a
matter of fact, I think this case has
altered child rearing in the United
States permanently. You know, it used to
be mom would send kids out the back door
and say, "Go play, come back for
supper." Now, the parents follow them
around, follow them to the bus stop.
They were all terrified. the kids are
going to be kidnapped. And it all
started with Eton Pates who was going to
catch a bus to his school in Soho in New
York. And he was kidnapped and
apparently murdered. And only recently
have we had a final resolution of the
case in terms of who committed the
murder, an individual named Hernandez,
whose conviction was now reaffirmed by
the Supreme Court.
>> Tell us about the confession because
there were some troubling things about
the confession. Yes, there were. His
brother-in-law reported to the police
that Hernandez had confessed to the
murder of Eton Pates. And of course,
Eton Pates murder has been a very, very
famous case throughout the United
States, ever since it happened back in
1979, long time ago. In any event, the
brother-in-law reports to the police
that his quote low IQ relative has
confessed to the murder and Camden
County, New Jersey police pick him up
and they start questioning him, but they
don't give him his Miranda warnings. He
confesses that he was working in a
bodega in Soho when Eton Pates came in
to buy a drink as he was on his way to
the bus stop and that he murdered Eton
Pates and disposed of the body,
presumably throwing the body into a
dumpster behind the deli. Full
confession to the murder. The police
then who have not given him his Miranda
warnings now say we should give him the
Miranda warnings and videotape this
confession. And that's exactly what they
do. They give a Miranda warnings,
videotape the confession, and then they
call the district attorney's office in
New York and say, "You better come out
here. We have somebody confessing to the
murder of Eton Pates." Now, this was a
case that had gone cold for a long time.
So, obviously, the Manhattan DA's office
was very interested in that. Apparently,
while all of this is going on, Hernandez
also talks to his wife and his daughter,
Rosemary and Becky, and he confesses to
both of them that he's in fact the
person who killed Eton Pates. He's then
picked up by the Manhattan DA's office,
taken back into New York where he
confesses again to the murder, this time
again on videotape. So, we now have two
videotaped confessions. Later on during
pre-trial proceedings, he meets with a
psychiatrist, he confesses to the
psychiatrist that he's the murderer. And
while giving that confession, he also
tells the psychiatrist that he admitted
this to a prayer group at one point over
the last 20 years. So by my account, I
think he's confessed now seven times to
the murder. All right. So the case goes
to trial in New York. The first trial,
by the way, ends in a hung jury. He's
retrieded and the second jury comes back
with a jury question. And the jury
question is this. If he was not given
his Miranda warnings properly and
therefore did not voluntarily confess,
is it okay for us to consider the other
confessions that occurred after this? In
substance, that was the question that
was asked by the jury. The way they
phrased it was the jury said, "Do we
have to disregard the subsequent
confessions if the first confession was
not voluntary?" The judge says one word,
"No." Okay. No, you don't have to
disregard the the subsequent
confessions. And after that, the jury
deliberates for another week and they
find Hernandez guilty of the kidnapping
and murder of Eton Pates. So that's the
story in a nutshell up until we get to
subsequent court decisions.
>> And I want to note it was a five-monthl
long trial with 66 witnesses. So it
wasn't just based on that confession. So
through the state, the state appellet
courts affirmed the conviction and then
the federal appellet court, the second
circuit in a 100page opinion last year
reversed and ordered that he get a new
trial. So, what was their reversal based
on?
>> The decision was based on the judge's
instructions to the jury when they came
back with a question. That question that
I just repeated, do we have to disregard
the subsequent confessions where the
judge just said no? That was the focus.
It was a petition for habius corpus
which you know is an elaborate procedure
that happens in most serious criminal
cases where an appeal has gone through
the whole state system and the defendant
is still in jail. He keeps losing and
then he finally goes to federal court
and says my constitutional rights were
violated. You the federal courts should
order my release and it's called the
habius corpus action. And there's been a
law that's been passed making it very
difficult to bring a habius action
because what was happening was every
criminal case in the United States was
winding up in federal court and the
Supreme Court now in this case makes
specific reference to that particular
law. It's called the Adepa law that
places limitations on habius corpus
actions. So when the second circuit,
which is a federal court, you now bear
in mind this went to the appellet
division in New York, the state court,
they looked at it and they said, you
know something, it's all right. The
question of whether a confession is
voluntary or involuntary, by the way, is
generally decided by a judge. It's not
usually decided by a jury. And so the
appellet division said under New York
law, the way this confession was
evaluated was perfectly proper. Okay. So
then they go into federal court with
this and the second circuit looks at it
which is the appellet court on the
federal side after the district court
looks at it first and they say well we
think there's a problem here. The judge
should have explained in more detail
other than saying no to the jury that
there could be a problem with the
confession that there was insufficient
what we call attenuation between the
initial confession and the subsequent
confession which also gets us back to
another rule which is the Mitchell
versus Sabbert rule that came about when
the cops were misusing Miranda warnings
and what they would do is they would
bring you into the station, get you to
confess to a crime, and after you gave
the complete detailed confession, they'd
walk out of the room, and then they'd
come back in and give you your Miranda
warnings and say, "By the way, that
confession, can you repeat that, please,
for the record, and now they videotape
your confession." All right. Now, when
the federal courts looked at this, they
said, "This is completely improper. It's
an attempt to get around the Miranda
warnings." And once somebody has been
possibly coerced into giving a
confession because they haven't heard
the Miranda warnings, of course they're
going to repeat the confession. So this
Missouri versus Sebert case said
basically this is an improper method of
administering the Miranda warnings. And
if it's done deliberately by the police,
the confession has to be thrown out. So
this comes up now in the Hernandez case
because does that violate the Missouri
versus Sbert rule? Well, the court in
New York said no, there was no violation
of that in our opinion. But when it goes
over to the federal court, the federal
court says yes, there was a violation of
that.
>> So the second circuit reversed the
conviction and ordered a new trial for
Hernandez, but the Manhattan District
Attorney's Office took that decision to
the highest court.
>> The state, and this is very unusual, now
goes to the Supreme Court to try to get
a conviction reinstated. You know,
usually you see a defendant who's been
convicted going to the Supreme Court to
get his case thrown out. This is the
opposite. The prosecutors looking for
justice now. So now when they go to the
Supreme Court, the Supreme Court says
no, there was no violation here because
the state looked at it under state law.
The administration of Miranda warnings
was done properly. There was proper
attenuation. And that's a question for
the judge, not the jury. The Sabbert
case never said anything about jury
instructions. So this is an overreach by
the second circuit and there was no
right for a habius corpus to be brought
here. So we're reinstating the
conviction.
>> Paul, did the Supreme Court reverse
because the second circuit didn't
properly follow federal law or because
state law should have applied here?
Well, it's a complex question because
they're saying that in this situation,
the state had the right to evaluate
whether there was a proper attenuation
of the confession. In other words,
whether the secondary administration of
Miranda warnings by the Manhattan DA and
by the police violated New York law. And
New York said, "No, that doesn't violate
our law." And in New York, a jury can
sometimes decide whether a confession is
voluntary or not. Under federal law,
that's generally a judge determination
that's been made. So the Supreme Court's
looking at this overall said, well,
we've looked at this and there's no
violation of federal law as it exists.
And if there was a violation of state
law, the state has already made a
decision here that there was no
violation of New York state law. So the
federal government has no business
interfering in how the state of New York
interprets the administration of the
Miranda warnings and the confession is a
voluntary confession. So it's kind of a
question of how you evaluate due process
under state and federal law and whether
there's a conflict between the sovereign
entities. And here the Supreme Court was
saying, you know, there are certain
things that we leave to the state. And
the federal habius corpus act says we
should leave most of those things alone
unless it's an absolutely egregious
violation of somebody's constitutional
rights. And let's step back and look at
this case. June, the guy confessed seven
times to the murder. All right? So, I
think the Supreme Court was looking at
it saying, "Well, you know, we're not
worried about whether we have the right
guy or not. We're just looking at some
technicalities here." And the New York
courts looked at those technicalities
and said, "There's no violation of New
York law here. So, we're not going to
set it aside because there's no
violation of federal law." I mean, the
second circuit basically wanted the
judge to start explaining to the jury a
concurring opinion by Justice Kennedy in
a case from more than 20 years ago. I
mean, it just seemed ridiculous to put
in legal terms.
>> That's exactly what the U second circuit
said. And by the way, people should know
this is what's called a perurium
decision by the Supreme Court, which
means a decision by the court. We don't
know who authored this opinion, but we
do know that the three liberal justices
on the court voted against. So it was a
6-3 decision by the court.
>> Nothing from the liberals about why they
were dissenting on this.
>> Very unusual because you know these
procurium decisions are usually very
very short. But this was I think an
11page very very detailed decision by
the court. And you would think that the
three justices who were dissenting would
have weighed in as to why they disagreed
with the other six members of the court,
but no, they said nothing. They just
said, "We dissent." So, I don't know
what the basis of their dissent would
be, and we'll never know because this
case is for all practical purposes over.
I mean, it'll go back to the to the
state court and the sentence will be
reimposed and and that'll be the end of
it. For all practical purposes, if the
Manhattan District Attorney's Office had
to retry this case, I mean, would they
have been able to put together a case
after all these years?
>> Well, that was one of the things they
raised in their briefs, saying it's
patently unfair to try to force us to
retry a case as old as this case, and to
try to put it all together. So, I think
they would have had trouble. But of
course, on the other hand, the case
primarily depends upon these
confessions, and it's easy enough to put
the confessions into evidence, you know,
through the psychiatrist and through the
Camden Police and through the Manhattan
DAS. Now, if he's going to offer an
insanity defense, yeah, that could take
a lot of time to put in and uh you know,
we don't know what would happen on a
retrial. I mean, the defense would
reassess and figure out a new way to
approach the case to try to put an
effective defense in play. And I will
say this, defense attorneys were very,
very adamant in saying he's innocent and
this is a really terrible decision to
reinstate this conviction.
>> Well, I remember Eton Pates's parents
were very unhappy when the second
circuit reversed the conviction, as you
might expect. It's been great having you
on again, Paul. Thanks so much. That's
former Manhattan prosecutor and criminal
defense attorney Paul Kalan. Turning now
to upcoming decisions at the Supreme
Court. Tomorrow, starting at 10:00 a.m.,
the court is going to announce decisions
in cases that have been argued. The
justices have 17 cases left to decide
before the term ends, which is usually
at the end of June. Seven are
high-profile cases and four of them
involve President Trump. Joining me is
an expert in constitutional law, Harold
Krant, a professor at the Chicago Kent
College of Law. Hal, so many cases left
in the last about week and a half of the
term. Among them, the most high-profile
cases of the term, including, for
example, the birthright citizenship case
or Trump's effort to fire a Federal
Reserve governor. I always hear that
well these are complicated cases and it
takes longer and there are more
concurrences and dissents but some of
these cases date back to December. So my
question is are they waiting to issue
all these important decisions together
to try to diffuse the impact of any one
decision?
>> I think that's plausible. I mean
obviously the Supreme Court does tend to
hold cases of great national importance
towards the end so they can make their
way into the night. So that has been a
tendency but again if they want to mute
some kind of reaction to their decisions
being both proTrump administration
anti-Trump admin administration bundling
them together is not a bad strategy and
I think the way these cases lay out it's
very likely that there'll be a split.
>> Yeah. So, let's start with some of the
most high-profile birthright
citizenship. President Trump's bid to
roll back automatic birthright
citizenship to babies with at least one
parent who is a US citizen or green card
holder.
>> Well, the issue is there is the 14th
amendment suggests that there is
citizenship to anybody born within the
jurisdiction of the United States. And
the question is what does jurisdiction
mean? But in terms of the history, in
terms of how we've interpreted the 14th
amendment and in terms of a
congressional statute that uses similar
language and the Supreme Court's
president in the Lu King Arc um decision
uh you know 100 years ago or so, they
all point to the direction that the
Trump administration is going to lose
and that we believe that anybody born
within the territory of the United
States with certain defined exceptions
such as the Indian tribes are citizens
and I can't believe the Supreme Court
restra from that in this case.
>> Well, as you say, there's a Supreme
Court case directly on point. All the
federal courts who ruled on this found
that the executive order runs against
the citizenship clause as well as
federal immigration law, Supreme Court
president. And when this case was
argued, it seemed like justices across
the ideological spectrum were dubious
about Trump's order. So why didn't this
decision come out fast then? Are we
expecting some kind of narrowing or
limited interpretation?
>> I can't imagine in this case. Some of
the other cases I can imagine a very
limiting perspective that the court will
take. Uh but this seems to be teed up as
a big Trump loss. And I could be
deceiving myself, but it seems like
that's going to happen. And again, as
you pointed out, maybe the court decides
it'll try to temper the sting, if you
will, to the Trump administration by
combining this case with the one in
which it looks more favorably upon what
President Trump has done.
>> Okay. So, now another one that appears
from the oral arguments, we knew the
answer to Trump's effort to fire Federal
Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unproven
mortgage fraud allegations. So again,
oral arguments, it seemed like the
justices were, you know, of one mind
that he couldn't do this. Tell us about
the constitutional issue here.
>> Well, the constitutional issue is is
really twofold. Um the first is if the
president does not have the right to
remove Lisa Cook, who is a Federal
Reserve governor of will, um then he has
to find cause. And the Supreme Court has
never defined what cause is. And the
cause in this case was the allegation of
a mortgage fraud from seven, eight years
ago, something like that, before Alisa
Cook was governor. So there's really two
three parts of this in which the court's
not going to tackle all three. One is
what does cause mean? We don't know.
Does cause extend to conduct
pre-appointment? Uh we don't know. My
guess is it does. I agree with the Trump
administration in that. but also what
kind of process is due and can it be
reviewable. So those are the three
issues and I think the court will
probably uh rule against the Trump
administration on the ground that at
least there has to be an informal
opportunity for the officer to give her
in this case her side of the story that
she did not engage in any kind of
mortgage fraud. She was not given that
opportunity. So I think a narrow due
process ruling can leave the officer in
place and then leave for another day.
The very important decision about if we
can only remove an officer for cause,
what is cause? Is it neglective duties?
Is it wrongdoing? You know, what does it
constitute?
>> So that case was argued in January. And
now another case related though not the
same that was argued at the beginning of
December is where Trump wants to remove
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter who's a federal
trade commissioner despite a law that
says commissioners can only be fired for
specific reasons.
>> Yeah. And this has been in the
crosshairs of the Trump administration.
This is part of the whole unitary
executive movement saying that the
president must be able to closely manage
his uh subordinates in the executive
branch and the administration as several
before him as well has attacked
Humphre's executive which protected
Congress's decision to in fact shield
the some officers from Atwell Removal
Authority. And so that's been a target
for many administrations. He picked the
exact target, the same Federal Trade
Commission that was in the Humphrey's
executive decision. And I think the
consensus is largely that the Supreme
Court will overrule Humphrey's executive
at least in part if not in whole. And so
giving the Trump administration a big
victory. But the question in my mind is
how far will the case go? Will they say
all executive branch officials? Will
they say all superior executive branch
officials? Will they say only some with
certain types of enforcement
responsibilities? So for instance, there
are executive branch agencies that
engage in adjudication would their
membership also have to be removable at
will by the president. So the the scope
of where the president under the
constitution under article 2 must have
this close authority to supervise
subordinates is is at stake here. I
don't think the court will reach out to
think about all of those contexts, but
it will at least contain the decision
will contain some hints about why the
Federal Trade Commission heads must be
removable at will and what other similar
agencies must be conformed to that same
structure.
>> So, do you think that they might
announce these two decisions together?
Do you think that one is waiting on the
other?
>> They could. I mean, there'll be a nice
pair both because it's really about the
same issue um in different forms of the
same issue and one will probably go
against the administration and one will
go for the administration.
>> Coming up, more on the upcoming Supreme
Court decisions, including a seeming
divide on election day ballot deadlines.
You're listening to Bloomberg.
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will be
announcing decisions in argued cases.
There are 17 cases left to decide before
the justices leave for their summer
vacations. I've been talking to
Professor Harold Krent of the Chicago
Kent College of Law. How Let's turn now
to the court's decision about a
Mississippi law that allows mail-in
ballots to be counted as long as they
arrive within five business days of
election day. As many as 29 states have
similar laws. Oh, so the issue is when
Congress has designated election day as
the first Tuesday after the second
Monday, if I remember correctly, in
November, what does that mean? Can you
then count votes after election day
itself or must all the votes be tallied
by election day? Um, and obviously in
Mississippi and 2020 in the pandemic
allowed for counting ballots after
election day as does over half the
states. And so it's a really interesting
both because Mississippi uh is a
Republican state and it's the one that's
going against the Trump administration
and it's interesting um in addition be
because of the fact that if you think of
federalism uh this is a
effort really to limit the rights of the
states visa v the federal government. So
it's some odd sign to bet fellows in
this case. Uh but you know I think it's
just a kind of a more narrow focus on
what does election day mean and do we
need to have decisions or votes counted
at least by election day if not
decisions in order to conform to what
Congress had in mind by saying there
should be one election day in the
country. During the oral arguments, the
Chief Justice and Justice Barrett raised
some questions about, well, if we don't
allow these late arriving ballots, does
that does that have an effect on early
voting? Because early voting, it's
before the date that Congress set.
>> Yeah, it depends. I think they could get
around that by saying that election day
means votes have to be tallied as
opposed to saying that it's not a
prohibition on votes being tallied
beforehand, at least some votes. So I I
think there is a distinction there, but
you know, you could say that a broad
definition of election day would really
limit the discretion of the states to
have early voting and late voting. And
again, think about military voting,
voting during wars. We've never been
able to count all the votes on election
day because, you know, individuals in
our country are dispersed for work, for
military reasons, and others. So it's
it's a very it's a practical matter.
It's a very important decision, but one
in which is right now, I think, too
close to call.
>> Yeah. Maybe a division down ideological
lines, which I'm expecting several of
those.
>> My only prediction on this case is it
will not be strictly on ideological
lines because I think the issues really
do cut across the ideological spectrum.
>> Okay, we shall see.
>> Yes, we shall.
>> We won't [laughter]
we won't place a bet on it, but we'll
see. So now there are federal caps that
limit spending by political parties in
coordination with candidates. Have the
conservatives on the Supreme Court ever
found a restriction on campaign
contributions
that they agreed with?
>> I think this one will be decided on
ideological grounds. Um and obviously
the the idea that money is speech
resonates greatly with a certain
ideological part of the Supreme Court.
did Citizens United. And here in this
case, they're looking at what's called
political coordinated spending, whether
the political parties can coordinate
with the campaigns of various individual
candidates to evade the limits set by
Congress. And so this really at the
heart is can Congress limit at all the
types of expenditures that are made to
influence campaigns for Democrats or for
Republicans. And obviously the Democrats
would benefit from this as well if the
caps are stricken though they have not
attacked the theory in this particular
case.
>> Why with campaign finance contributions
is it Republicans that want to get rid
of them and Democrats that want to keep
them?
>> I think it's a sense that even though
Democrats would benefit, they know that
they need to be sort of consistent with
their base and their base tend to be
smaller donors. At least that's
perceived to be the case even if it's
not true. And so they want to be seen as
people not wanting big money to rule
everything. And that's a message that
resonates with at least a large segment
of Democratic voters.
>> Let's turn now to transgender issues in
sports. State laws in Idaho and West
Virginia ban transgender girls and women
from competing on female athletic teams.
And I mean there are 27 states with
similar laws. Give us the arguments on
both sides of this case.
>> Sure. I mean the opponents of the ban
say that this is a violation both of
title 9 which limits the conduct of any
kind of school district that accepts
federal money and violates the equal
protection clause of the constitution.
So, it's an echo of the case that the
Supreme Court decided just recently in
Scrati when the case rejected similar
claims against Tennessee's ban on
hormone treatment for minors. In this
case, though, it's it's participation in
sporting events in high school. People
have more of a visceral reaction to it,
I think, than the use, for instance, of
of different bathrooms. And you know, I
think that the conservatives will
probably win on on this one on the
theory that there's at least a rational
basis for school districts to decide
either because of safety or because of
fairness uh not to allow trans kids on
women's teams, but to allow trans kids
on on men's teams is obviously a lack of
symmetry. But then the only way I think
for the challengers to win is if they
get some kind of increased protection
due to the claim either that this is
masquerade of sex discrimination that
this is like the title 7 case in Boston
because where the Supreme Court held
that any kind of discrimination on the
basis of of appearance or gender or
being trans was a violation of title 7
though you know Justice Gorsuch signaled
that he views title N differently as
title seven even though they were
modeled on the same thing. So, you know,
there the the question really is I think
most people have a consensus that this
would pass any kind of rational basis
test, but if the scrutiny gets more
strict, then it's more difficult to
justify the ban. Um, and we don't have
good statistics on what is the risk of
having trans kids play on high school
sports teams. we don't know them and the
risks are more theoretical and so any
kind of heightened attention that is
paid would I think result in a victory
for the challengers not predicting that
but that would be the case if the
scrutiny is raised
>> the woman in the Idaho case tried to get
the case dropped because she was no
longer competing Idaho didn't want the
case dropped in the West Virginia case
there was an argument that the young
woman had puberty blockers, so she never
really had those hormones that would
have given her an edge. Male hormones,
you know, I wonder if that they're not
going to get that deeply into it and
just base the decision on the plaintiffs
being transgender.
>> You know, you know, my sense from
looking at the transcript of oral
argument is that the court could get rid
of this case, as you suggest, but
unlikely to. The court seems to want to
address these issues just as it did in
Scrati last term and sort of widen the
areas in which states if they so choose
can rule against trans kid equality.
That's my sense. But there are the seeds
there that this the court wants to duck
it. It can duck it and probably with a
good face. if it doesn't duck it. This
is one of the cases where I say I will
fall off my chair if they actually rule
in favor of transgender rights because
since the Bostock case they have ruled
consistently against transgender rights
and LGBTQ rights. I mean it's just
pretty obvious.
>> Yeah. Bosto was the high point if you
will the pinnacle of protection for
people who are LGBT and trans. And there
has been a startling decline after that
and I you know you know predict that
that trend will continue.
>> So then we have Bayer. The company says
that federal regulators didn't require a
cancer warning and so state regulators
shouldn't have been allowed to require a
cancer warning either. This is only
about one suit involving failure to
warn. But there are so many suits
against Bayer. I think it's about
60,000. So the under the federal
regulation statute, it it seems that the
FDA decides, you know, what is safe,
what is not safe, and has only approves
warnings or not warnings on labels of
this case Roundup, which is a well-known
was a well-known fungicide, um, which
obviously had bad repercussions and
leads to cancer. And so the question is
was could states or warn about Roundup
without any kind of federal blessing.
And you know I think here the
administration is on pretty strong
ground to have some kind of uniform
regulation that you know to have ground
up being okay in one state or have a
warning in one state not in the other.
and what about runoff, you know, in
terms of the environment is not a a kind
of crazy way to think about regulation
that seems to need a uniform approach.
So, it's the federal regulation from
Congress that's at least directed from
Congress seems to contemplate
one-sizefits-all regulation of any
chemicals coming within the purview of
this particular regulatory scheme. Um,
and so I think that on average, again,
we're going to have see a split. I think
in ideological leanings amongst the
justices. I think there'll be a
coalition both of of conservative and
liberal judges going both ways. But I if
I had to predict, I would predict that
the federal government would win as
against the states simply because it
seems that this regulatory scheme is
focused on the need for uniformity. And
in this case, the FDA did not require
any kind of more stringent uh regulation
or roundup despite what we unfortunately
have found out is about it its true
costs. So the interesting thing about
these cases is we're not going to see
uniform I think ideological bands of the
court and I don't think we're going to
see uniform Trump administration wins.
So it's really going to be a mixed uh
set and then we'll have to see in each
particular case um how the court uh
resolves it.
>> And we will see that starting tomorrow
at 10:00. Thanks so much for getting us
ready for what's coming up, Hal. That's
Professor Harold Krent of the Chicago
Kent College of Law. And that's it for
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