Didactic and Inculcatory

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

4.9 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

We look at the final orders list before summer break, and then continue to work through last month's opinions, this time with an extended analysis of two decisions about children and culture wars -- Mahmoud v. Taylor (religious objections to LGBTQ+-inclusive books) and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (age verification for accessing online pornography).

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0:00.0	Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Oh, yeah. 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	All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to give their attention.
0:19.8	Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unap predictable Supreme Court podcast.
0:24.8	I'm Will Vode and I'm Dan Epps.
0:27.5	So Will, this episode, I think we're going to give people a little bit more of what they want,
0:32.6	or at least what some people want, which is discussion of some hot button cases.
0:37.7	Is that what people want? I don't know. It's what some people want, and is discussion of some hot button cases. Is that what people want?
0:38.7	I don't know.
0:39.2	It's what some people want, and it's what some people don't want.
0:43.3	You know, obviously, if you listen to the show regularly, you must not want that 100% of the time,
0:48.8	because we don't give you that 100% of the time or even really 50% of the time.
0:55.7	Yeah.
0:56.2	But we have to do it more than 0% of the time, right?
0:59.3	We can't really call ourselves a Supreme Court podcast if we don't talk about the cases that get the most attention from the wider world.
1:10.4	But it's July.
1:11.4	We're taking our time.
1:12.9	We're sort of circling back to the cases
1:15.1	we think we're talking about,
1:16.1	rather than trying to provide eight minute hot takes
1:19.4	all in one end of June episode.
1:21.4	So here we go.
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