#231: SCOTUS Bingo & the Slaughterhouse Cases

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🗓️ 3 May 2018

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This week, Sheldon Gilbert of the Institute for Justice joins the ladies to talk about why it's time for SCOTUS to overrule the infamous Slaughterhouse Cases. They also try to stump Sheldon in a round of Supreme Trivia.

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0:00.0	I'm Elizabeth Slattery and I'm Tiffany Bates.
0:05.5	And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court,
0:09.6	what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.
0:13.8	This week we're talking about SCOTUS bingo, SCOTUS tunes,
0:17.7	and we'll chat with Sheldon Gilbert from the Institute for Justice.
0:20.9	So not much is happening at the Supreme Court this week. The justice has wrapped up this
0:25.1	term's oral arguments last week, and now we have to wait for them to release all of the
0:29.4	remaining opinions. And I did a quick count, and it looks like there are 39 opinions to go,
0:35.4	including two from October, Epic Systems, which is an arbitration case,
0:39.4	and Gill, the big partisan gerrymandering case.
0:42.8	Traditionally, the justices have roughly the same number of opinions, and they're usually
0:48.0	pretty evenly distributed from each sitting.
0:50.3	So it gets interesting near the end of the term when more opinions come down, and you can start to guess which justice might be the author of any of the remaining opinions.
0:59.2	It's a little bit like playing Scotus Bingo.
1:01.3	Yeah, exactly. We should do that.
1:04.0	So, for example, since there are only two opinions from October and each of the justices already wrote an opinion from that sitting except to Gorsuch in the chief.
1:13.1	So my guess is that the chief is going to write Gill and that Gorsuch has the arbitration case.
1:17.9	This is just a guess, but I have a hard time believing that Gorsuch is going to get assigned one of the biggest cases of the term just yet.
1:26.0	I think they're still trying to, you know.
1:49.1	Ease them in. Ease them in. Yeah. And SCOTUS FLA keeps great stats about this. And if you're interested, you can check it out on their stats page. There's a new way to get caught up on SCOTUS oral arguments. Tiffany, have you heard about this yet? No, I haven't. Tell me. So there's a YouTube channel called SCOTUS Tunes, and it has cartoon videos of every oral argument.
1:49.7	What?
1:55.7	Yeah, it just started this term, and I watched a little bit of some of them this morning, and I love it.
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