From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow.

This is the Daily.

The Supreme Court began a new term this week, one where the justices will weigh in on issues of presidential power and on the most consequential culture war battles in America.

In one of the first cases, the court considered whether to strike down a ban on conversion

therapy, the controversial practice aimed at changing someone's sexual orientation.

Today, my colleague Anne Marimo walks us through that case. It's Thursday,

October 9th.

Anne, welcome to The Daily, first time on the show as our new Supreme Court correspondent.

Thank you. I'm really happy to be here.

I'm really excited to talk to you because we are at the start of a new Supreme Court term.

And it's one I think a lot of us have been anticipating and waiting for because the court is going to be ruling on a number of big

questions. We know that there are big questions related to the Trump administration,

among all these other cases on the docket. So I want to ask how you weigh the importance of the

cases that are before the court right now. Yeah. So as you said, it's a huge term. The Trump

administration's agenda is really going to dominate a lot of the docket. Right. Already we have in

November the case about Trump's sweeping tariffs. They're going to look at whether the president

has the power to fire independent government regulators who are supposed to be protected by Congress.

And then in January, they're going to look at, does the president have the authority to fire

a governor of the independent Federal Reserve Board? Right. So some pretty big questions about what

Trump can and can't do. Exactly. But there are also all of these other cases that will have critical impact on the

lives of Americans that are as important and that we're also watching this term. The court's going to

look at the rights of transgender athletes to participate in girls and women's sports, the religious

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