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Advisory Opinions

Camping Outside the Supreme Court

Advisory Opinions

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4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is the jackpot for Supreme Court bingo players, as our hosts play a guessing game as to which justices will write some of the court’s most anticipated forthcoming opinions. Also on today’s episode, David and Sarah chat about two cases involving racial classification in the dispensation of government relief to “socially disadvantaged” farmers and ranchers, and debate which Supreme Court cases AP U.S. history students should be required to commit to memory. Plus, Sarah shares a fun story about her experience camping outside of the Supreme Court building to hear oral arguments for D.C. v. Heller. Show Notes: -Fulton v. City of Philadelphia -Ferris v. United States -Trump v. Hawaii Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isker. And Sarah,

0:10.7

the Supreme Court kind of sort of let us down today.

0:13.0

They did. They really did. Kind of sort of. I mean, I was all geared up to have a podcast

0:20.1

about the Obamacare decision ready for it. I mean, woke up this morning thinking Obamacare

0:27.4

is Obamacare today, Obamacare day. But no, no, we'll fill you in on what happened at

0:34.0

the Supreme Court today. The answer is not much. But what we can do, we'll talk a little

0:40.5

bit of scot of stuff, including some bingo. We're going to talk about a new lawsuit out of

0:46.7

Texas that is quite interesting. And I believe got some merit to it. I'm going to talk about

0:54.4

a teacher lawsuit that's interesting. We're going to do a little AP history curriculum.

1:00.8

Don't change the dial because that's going to be fun. And then Sarah's experience camping

1:05.2

out. No, not in the Himalayas, not in the Andes, not in the Rockies in the middle of Washington,

1:13.3

DC. So we've got a lot to cover. But Sarah, let's start with a little bit of bingo and

1:20.4

get your thoughts on this because you are our foremost practitioner of Supreme Court bingo

1:25.5

in the advisory opinions podcast. So someone who also plays Supreme Court bingo in the

1:30.7

know on this has this assessment. And I want to get your reaction. So I got this email

1:36.4

over the weekend from somebody. You know who you are. Long time bingo player. And this

1:42.3

is his assessment. Supreme Court handed down a Monday, another decision in the November

1:48.5

sitting, which gives me more data on the bingo cards, supporting his tentative conclusion

1:54.0

that justice, Alito is writing the majority opinion in Fulton, V city, Affila, Delphia.

1:58.6

And that's the case. We've talked about a bunch, which is the was this involves Catholic

2:04.9

charities and same sex foster parenting slash adoption and religious liberty. So he's

2:13.0

of the conclusion, Alito is writing the majority opinion in Fulton, V city of Philadelphia.

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