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Divided Argument

Everybody Procrastinates

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

4.9676 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dan and Will discuss the Court's recent run of unanimous cases, paying particular attention to United States v. Cooley; ponder weighty issues like the role of the Hart & Wechsler casebook in defining the field of federal courts; and announce a fun new way for listeners to engage with the show.

Transcript

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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.

0:19.2

Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unap predictable Supreme Court podcast.

0:23.4

I'm Will Bode.

0:24.7

And I'm Dan Upps.

0:25.5

So one feature of us being unscheduled is that we did not do an episode last week

0:30.6

because we were hoping to, but then the court didn't give us a lot of interesting material to work with.

0:36.8

I got a theory about this, Dan.

0:38.1

Tell me.

0:39.0

I think somebody at the court must have found out about the podcast, noticed that

0:42.5

it released a lot of episodes the first week and figured maybe they could just freeze us out

0:47.3

and we would get bored and stop the whole thing.

0:49.5

I think so.

0:50.0

They want to slow us down.

0:51.3

They want to put up a lot of obstacles in our path. And then,

0:57.4

but corollary, what that means is that they're going to jam us up at the very end of the term with a bunch of stuff that we want to talk about. And then it's kind of a scattershot approach.

1:01.4

We won't be able to talk about everything. Yeah. Because if it was just last Monday,

1:05.4

we're now recording this on Tuesday, June 1st. And Monday of last week, they didn't give us much good, just some unanimous

1:12.8

opinions. And then Thursday, they had an opinion day. We were all excited. And they gave us another

1:18.4

unanimous opinion. And then today, Tuesday, we were excited, finally get something interesting.

1:23.8

And they gave us two more unanimous opinions. So we have an obligation, I think, to record

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