I'm Elizabeth Slattery and I'm Tiffany Bates and welcome to SCOTUS 101 where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This week we're talking about Kagan and Sotomayor's recent speeches, the court's new grants and denials, and we'll interview Supreme Court lawyer Petique Shop.

So the justices are not hearing arguments or having a conference this week. So we'll talk a

little bit about SCOTUS in the news. So Tiffany, did you hear President Trump thinks he may get to

nominate three more justices? Yes. I heard that. I think he said he will get to replace

Kennedy, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor.

Yeah, so Axios is reporting that sources say Trump believes, in addition to replacing Anthony Kennedy,

who is widely believed to be considering retiring in the near future, apparently Trump also thinks he's going to replace the notorious RBG and Sotomayor, citing health reasons for both of them.

Sotomayor, of course, has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was a child, and Trump referenced that, allegedly.

And then Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he also pointed out something along the lines of she weighs 60 pounds.

Probably because she works out all the time.

She does, and we're going to talk about that a little bit more later. But I think it's a little bit of wishful, wishful thinking, if Trump really believes he's going to get three more nominees, but I guess we will see. Yeah, that's unlikely to happen. But if he does get another appointment, we have a list prepared. We do. President Trump, please call us. We have many ideas. So the court is also, it's using a new transcript service this term called the Heritage Reporting Corporation. This has no affiliation with the Heritage Foundation. Just want to point that out. And it's getting flack from SCOTUS watchers. For one, it's slower to release transcripts the day of arguments. People who can't make it over to the court to watch the argument live eagerly await the transcripts to be released, which used to be available shortly after lunch on argument days.

Now they're taking a little bit longer.

There have also been some transcription errors.

One was all over Twitter last week where the transcript service actually called Justice Alito,

Justice Solito, which sounds like a mashup of Sotomayor and Alito, which I think would be a

pretty terrifying judge.

So on Twitter there have been some really funny memes, which we'll tweet out from our SCOTUS 101 handle, suggesting that

you know, maybe this is Bizarro Justice Alito like Bizarro Superman or evil Justice Alito from

another realm. So that's the latest with the transcript service. I've also noticed that the court has

been slower to post their orders on Monday mornings after conferences.

Maybe it's because of that flashy new website. Yeah, I don't know what's going on. But

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