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The Supreme Court has refused to allow the Postal Service to enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots for the midterms.

The justices' decision on Monday night came after North Carolina and Alabama already began mailing thousands of ballots to voters and after election officials warned that late-breaking changes would inject chaos into the elections.

Thanks so much, Rich.

That's Professor Richard Brafault of Columbia Law School.

Coming up next on the Bloomberg Law Show, President Trump threatens to stop efforts to repair the Kennedy Center unless his name is added to the building.

I'm June Grosso, and you're listening to Bloomberg.

I will admit.

I grew up in North Carolina in Raleigh, went to school in D.C. and St. Louis and Williamsburg before landing at Bloomberg Law.

I actually started the day, but it was... changing over from BNA to Bloomberg Law after Bloomberg bought us.

So the senior attorneys I talked to remember it as BNA, but I've bounced around a lot of different beats since I've been there.

I was covering toxic torts at first, so really happy, super fun cases, contamination.

And so I said, yes.

And I was the first year basically figuring out how to even find what the state courts were up to in this area.

And a lot of it is, you know, I... was able to automate what I can setting up alerts on Bloomberg Law or website scrapers.

AI is more likely to result in a position remaining vacant for longer, maybe a backfill being questioned, and that we do see, a junior role being combined with another position because there isn't the same need for those junior roles, work moving to legal ops more so than we've seen before into contracts management or flexible talent, sometimes fewer outside counsel hours because of AI, and sometimes a team being expected to absorb additional volume without adding headcount.

I also looked at some research on this, and legal leaders recently interviewed by Bloomberg Law described the near-term effect as a gradual slowing or demand of hiring rather than this mass elimination of lawyers.

So let's talk a little bit about the in-house roles first before we focus on the law firm.

And so with the in-house roles, are the general counsels being pressured to shift to use more AI and to hold off on any backfills or hiring? Is that sort of the general trend that you're seeing?

That's genius.

This is Bloomberg Law with June Grosso from Bloomberg Radio.

Twice this past week, the Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using a congressional map designed by Republican legislators to give the party control of seven of the state's eight congressional districts.

It's a defining moment in the legal battle over the state's maps that has spanned almost a year and spawned confusion among voters.

Thanks so much, Mary.

That's Professor Mary Ziegler of UC Davis Law School.

And that's it for this edition of the Bloomberg Law Show.

Remember, you can always get the latest legal news on our Bloomberg Law podcast.

Lastly, and you might find this one interesting, the Constitution doesn't include a right to clean water or accurate information from public officials according to a new court ruling.

This was from Bloomberg Law.

It says the decision affirms the dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged lead-contaminated drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the lawsuit from the Jackson residents alleged violations of due process rights not granted by the Constitution.

So here we go.

Today, we are joined via video conference by Sandhya Raman of Bloomberg Law.

Hello, everyone.

Joanne Cannon of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico magazine.