Fixing the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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David Lat joins Sarah and David to break down recent Supreme Court trends and discuss Lat’s legal fiction novel, Supreme Ambitions. The Agenda: —Is the shadow docket problem solved? —Supreme Court approval rating —Stabilizing the Supreme Court —Lat’s pick for most interesting justice —Who will win the text, history, and tradition fight? —Advice for law students —Lat’s book, Supreme Ambitions —Stranger than legal fiction —Male authors writing female protagonists —Lat’s favorite legal writing —The return of crime procedurals Show Notes: —Shadow docket on Biden Title IX regulations —Advisory Opinions on Presumed Innocent Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Sarah’s Collision newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready. Hey! opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's the David's. We've got both David's today. It's the
0:25.1	return of David Latt and of course David French is lurking there in the background
0:29.9	somewhere.
0:30.9	David, you're wearing your lips gum hoodie.
0:34.0	It must be getting a little cold there because I haven't seen you in long sleeves.
0:38.0	Yeah, so it's the weirdest weather right now, Sarah, in Tennessee. like last night I was actually chilly
0:44.5	woke up in the morning and like the house was in the mid 60s yeah yeah
0:50.3	same thing is happening in DC it's mid. I guess the end of the world's coming. I don't know. David, how's New Jersey?
0:58.0	Oh, good. I actually turned off our air conditioning, which is nice. No heat, no no air conditioning hopefully we're in that nice
1:04.8	period of the year where this can endure no we're not no this it's over soon yeah
1:10.9	but I was sitting outside with friends Monday night actually chilly and
1:15.8	short sleeves in Tennessee in mid-August which is insane. Well we've got a fun
1:21.6	podcast today I thought we would just do some, I don't know, catching up with
1:26.0	Latt on law things, trends, etc. And then of course David Latt's here because he's the author of a novel Supreme Ambitions and I've got so many questions on that but David I thought maybe we could start with just
1:40.0	Supreme Court trends right like the Shadow docket slash the emergency docket if you're nasty and how people are feeling about this because when Steve Vlatic, the law professor who was at the University of Texas now at Georgetown, really first coined the term shadow docket.
1:56.8	He was raising awareness in something that a lot of people haven't really been paying attention to.
2:01.2	This idea that like, yeah, yeah sure around June everyone's like
2:04.8	ooh this case is coming out and this case is coming out but increasingly all of these
2:10.0	injunctions what the status quo is during that litigation is getting
2:15.1	decided on this emergency docket and oftentimes we don't know how the justices
2:19.8	vote, there's not oral argument, the briefing is quick and abbreviated, etc.
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