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Divided Argument

Will Baude & Dan Epps

Constitution, Constitutional Law, News, Law, Politics, Supreme Court, Government, Legal System, Supreme Court Of The United States, U.s. Supreme Court, Scotus, Supreme Court Justice

4.9676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

After an unpredictably long hiatus, we're back to talk about what we missed. We debate the off-the-rails FedSoc panel Dan was on, work through some shadow docket happenings and the Court's two recent DIGs, ponder the implications of the election on the Court, and briefly discuss the first merits opinion of the Term, Bouarfa v. Mayorkas.

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0:00.0

Oh, yay, oh, yay, oh, yay, oh, yeah.

0:03.3

The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court.

0:08.0

Unless there is any more question to be able to find an argument in this case.

0:11.0

All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are in honorous to give their attention.

0:19.7

Welcome to Divide an Argument, an unscheduled, un-predictable Supreme Court

0:23.4

podcast. I'm Will Bode. And I'm Dan Apps. So we got to the stage where we've been getting

0:29.7

a lot of emails asking for proof of life. It has been a little bit longer than it should have

0:35.9

been since our last episode. I don't think we have any one excuse, decent one. So you were teaching five days a week all semester?

0:42.8

Yep, that's true. That's something like a real job. Yeah, for non-law professors out there, that's quite unusual. That's the idea that a law professor would, would like do their job, not just one or two, but five days out of the week is it's pretty

0:54.8

extraordinary i assume that means you don't have to teach much for the rest of the year though i've got

0:59.2

some seminars but yeah that was my heaviest lifting for a while okay yeah i i had my heavier

1:03.4

teaching this fall other stuff i don't know you got your wisdom teeth out apparently decades decades later

1:09.0

than the rest of us i was always a late bloomer.

1:11.2

Yeah. Well, you know, you're just unusually wise. You've been holding onto that wisdom for

1:15.0

for longer, possibly. I had an extra wisdom tooth. I had five. But you didn't keep it, so you

1:20.1

lost the wisdom. Yeah, no, I lost it early. That's the fun fact about me for today's

1:26.0

episode. Any other excuses? I don't know. What else you've been up to?

1:29.8

So I was on this Federalist Society panel at the National Lawyers Convention, which I went to. Where were you, by the way?

1:38.2

Teaching.

1:39.2

Okay. I thought like, what is the world coming to when I go to the Federal Society National Lawyers Convention and you don't bother?

1:46.2

Have they taken your cart away or something after?

1:49.3

Not yet.

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