Hello and

welcome to the political orphanage, a home for Puckie Misfits and Gaffle Bangers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton, giving you a warm welcome to Judge Week. In our very first installment of Judge Week, oh so many years ago in the wake of Ruth

Bader Ginsburg's death, we spoke to jurists about the different models judges used to

interpret the law, originalism, living constitutionalism, and even some other minor judicial philosophies that constitute the real

actual fight that goes on within the Supreme Court. The actual

ideological tectonic plates used to interpret the law, not just red team or blue team preferred policies as is so frequently portrayed in the media.

Then in Judge Week 2, Church and State,

we went over prayer in schools,

the dividing lines between the establishment

and free exercise clause, and whether or not

you can eat peyote if you form your own religion.

Well now we're doing Judge Week 3, Pardon my scotis.

We will be sampling just some of the momentous Supreme Court decisions that have come down to us over the last few days,

the end of the Chevron doctrine, a couple of rulings about guns, homelessness,

and of course presidential immunity.

Before we dive into today's topic,

I want to quickly assert the purpose of Judge Week.

Judge Week exists primarily so that listeners of this show

know the rationales and mechanisms of the Supreme Court.

I think that it is a valuable public service that this program provides,

particularly in light of the more I read Supreme Court decisions, the more angry I

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