Confirm Me If You Can
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Amy and GianCarlo introduce Judge Amy Coney Barrett and cover all the most interesting and exciting parts of her confirmation hearing. They also discuss two cases argued before the Court this week: Torres v. Madrid, and U.S. v. Briggs. GianCarlo interviews Ilya Shapiro about his new book, Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court. And lastly, Amy does a pretty good job of stumping GianCarlo with court-packing trivia!
If you'd like to read Ilya's new book--and we highly recommend it--you can find it here.
Here's Amy's article on Judge Barrett's Second Amendment writings.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Amy Swearer. |
| 0:06.9 | And I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:08.5 | And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back, everyone. We have a great lineup here for week two of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:25.6 | We're so glad that you joined us again. We've got a lot of exciting things to talk about. |
| 0:29.6 | We have confirmation hearing updates, order updates, oral argument updates, and a fantastic |
| 0:36.2 | interview with the king of the Amicus Brief himself, |
| 0:39.1 | the Cato Institute's Ilya Shapiro. |
| 0:41.8 | But, John Carlo, before we get into any of that, I must first address something that several |
| 0:48.6 | listeners have pointed out from a previous episode. |
| 0:52.0 | Last week, during my tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I accidentally |
| 0:56.5 | referred to Sandra Day O'Connor as the late Justice O'Connor instead of merely the former |
| 1:02.8 | Justice O'Connor. Mea Coppa, Maya, Maia, Maxima, Copa. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Sandra Day O'Connor's death have been |
| 1:14.4 | greatly exaggerated. No, you did not miss another 2020 plot twist. I am happy to report that while |
| 1:21.5 | Justice O'Connor retired from public life in 2018, she is still very much alive and well and spending her time in Arizona. My sincerest |
| 1:30.3 | apologies for that mistake, and thank you to everyone who pointed out that I wrongly, though very |
| 1:35.3 | much unintentionally, killed off the first woman Supreme Court justice. 2020 has been rough enough. |
| 1:41.6 | No, no, 2020 does not get Sandra Day O'Connor as well. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, for those of you who have been hiding under rocks or banned from social media this week, |
| 1:52.3 | the Senate Judiciary Committee has held four days of confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney-Barrant, |
| 1:58.2 | President Trump's nominee to fill the seat of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
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