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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

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We revisit a story about Justice Scalia from last episode and then discuss recent allegations about Justice Thomas's financial disclosures, and Supreme Court ethics more broadly. We also briefly turn to two recent merits opinions -- Türkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States and Reed v. Goertz.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.4

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.

0:10.8

The whole person having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to give their attention.

0:19.1

Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unpredictable,

0:22.8

Supreme Court podcast.

0:23.9

I'm Dan Epps.

0:25.1

And I'm well-vote.

0:26.5

Okay, well, been a little bit of a gap, but not terrible since the last episode.

0:30.8

Some updates.

0:31.8

What have we got?

0:32.7

So one thing that we had last time was you expressed skepticism that there had ever been an event at which

0:41.5

members of the Federal Society chanted, just as Calea's dissent, and Morrison versus Olson.

0:48.3

And there's at least one media report coming for that, a piece by an interview with

0:53.0

Amanda Hollisbrowski, who's a political scientist who studies court, who reported that, a piece by an interview with Amanda Hollisproski, who's a political

0:54.7

scientist who studies court, who reported being at a book event with Justice Scalia, where people

1:00.2

started reading, the kind of fanboys started, like, chanting along with him as he read, he

1:05.0

weren't language from his famous descent in that case.

1:08.7

Yes, there is that report, and I have no reason to believe that report

1:13.0

is inaccurate, although I still have a hard time envisioning what this looks like. And I have a

1:18.8

hard time envision how many lines it is, because, like, I have read the Morrison versus Olson

1:22.2

dissent more than a lot of people, and I am pretty far in the just a Scalia fanboy thing. But without warning,

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