Masha G. Hansford

In this episode, we preview some of the biggest cases on the docket, unpack the constitutional questions at stake, and explore the issues at the court in the year ahead.

Joining the conversation are Masha Hansford, a partner at Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Amy Howe, the co-founder of SCOTUSblog, and Greg Stohr, a Supreme Court reporter for Bloomberg News.

This program was streamed live from Philadelphia on September 28th, 2026.

Hello, everyone.

In this episode, we preview some of the biggest cases on the docket, unpack the constitutional questions at stake, and explore the issues at the Court in the year ahead.

Joining the conversation are Masha Hansford, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, Amy Howe, the co-founder of SCOTUSblog, and Greg Stohr, a Supreme Court reporter for Bloomberg News.

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So far this term, the court has granted twenty-eight cases, less than half of what the justices will likely decide by June.

There's a very good sample chance that the thirty-five or so that the court is likely to grant in the remainder of this year will be the ones that are really the highlights, said Masha Hansford, an attorney with Davis Polk Wardwell, a former assistant to the solicitor general.

After Trump and his allies launched a rhetorical war against lower courts in early twenty twenty-five, the president and the Supreme Court seemed to slide into a detente by the middle of the year.

A delicate balance in which Trump has abided by the losses handed to him by the High Court, even as he has occasionally lashed out against the justices who supported them.