Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court.

I'm John Carlo Canoparo.

I'm Zach Smith.

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.

Well, welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101, G.C.

Can you believe we're already two weeks into the court's new term?

Time flies, Zach.

It sure does.

So, G.C., what's been going on at the court these past two weeks?

So these past two weeks were still at the early stages of the courts.

We don't have opinions yet, but we are having oral arguments going on, and the court is still granting and denying new cases.

On that front, we had four new cases coming out of the long conference.

The long conference, for those listeners who don't know, is that first conference the court has when it comes back out of recess and they consider hundreds, if not close to a thousand petitions for Sir Scherari to decide which cases to take and deny.

A lot of new cases granted at a long conference. I'm going to pull out two notable ones.

One is called Concepcion versus United States, and that case asked the court to resolve

how lower courts should deal with intervening factual and legal developments when resentencing

certain offenders under the First Step Act.

And you know, G.C., I understand that this is an important case because the circuit courts have

been divided on that issue. And in fact, some circuits have required district courts to consider

those intervening developments. Some circuits permit, but don't require district courts

to consider those developments.

And then some circuits prohibit their district courts from considering those developments.

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