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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

A Supremely Soporific Slog

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

The Heritage Foundation

Government

4.5527 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Heritage colleague Jason Snead joins Elizabeth Slattery to slog through recent snooze-worthy opinions. Elizabeth also chats with Ed Whelan and Chris Scalia about "On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer." Stay tuned for Supreme Trivia!You can get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Lessons-American-Believer/dp/1984823310. Or watch the Heritage book event here: https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/event/faith-lessons-american-believer.Follow us on Twitter @scotus101 and send comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes to scotus101@heritage.org. Don't forget to leave a 5-star rating!Show your love for SCOTUS 101 and buy a limited edition mug while they last: shop.heritage.org/products/scotus-101-mug. Tune in for a promo code!

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0:00.0

I'm Elizabeth Lattery and welcome to Stodis 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court,

0:09.4

what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

0:14.0

This week, I'm joined by my heritage colleague, Jason Sneed.

0:17.2

Jason, welcome back to Stodas 101.

0:19.4

It is great as always to be here. Before we get into

0:23.1

what's been going on at the court, I wanted to mention that we are still selling SCOTUS 101

0:27.4

mug. So show your love for the podcast and get a limited edition mug while they last. You can get them

0:33.5

at shop.Heritage.org. And listeners, we're offering a 30% off discount code and free shipping.

0:41.2

You'll want to enter four bananas, that's all one word, the number four, and bananas, all lowercase.

0:47.3

Enter that at checkout to get your discount. All right, now on to the show. The court issued three

0:53.4

opinions this week. So there are now 24 outstanding cases with just two weeks left to go in the term.

0:59.8

And we're still waiting for decisions in the higher profile cases of the term, such as the census citizenship question case.

1:06.7

Now, late Wednesday, challengers in that case ask the court not to rule and instead to send it back to the lower court for further fact-finding in light of new allegations that adding this question was intended to give Republicans' political advantages.

1:22.1

Meanwhile, the Census Bureau plans to run a test by sending a form similar to the 2020 census to 480,000 households

1:30.6

this week, half with the citizenship question, half without. And this is to gauge how adding the

1:36.7

question may affect the response rate. So with that, let's move on to the three opinions that

1:41.6

the court issued this week. Jason, you want to talk about the first one?

1:45.0

Sure. So first up, we've got Quarles v. United States, which was a unanimous opinion by Justice

1:50.7

Kavanaugh, and it deals with the Armed Career Criminal Act, which the court seems to have a

1:56.0

handful of cases each term that deals with that particular act. This case looked at whether the defendant's

2:01.8

state law conviction for third-degree home invasion qualified as burglary under the ACCA and was

2:08.8

a predicate offense for his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, which is in

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