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This year’s U.S. Supreme Court term is poised to build on last year’s consequential rulings, with the approaching midterm elections putting election rules, mail ballots, and congressional maps to the test while the president pushes to expand his own power and curb agency authority, and cultural issues like semiautomatic weapons, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration take center stage on the docket. In this first half of a Sidley Podcast episode, host and partner Sam Gandhi speaks with Kwaku Akowuah, co-leader of Sidley’s Supreme Court, Appellate, and Litigation Strategies practice, and Tobias Loss-Eaton, a partner in that practice who won a unanimous Supreme Court decision this spring, about the court’s last term, including how the justices expanded presidential power to remove executive officials, limited voting and immigration rights, and checked the executive’s ability to impose tariffs.