How to Sue the Feds
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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Summary
This week brings the Court another Trump-related lawsuit and a bevy of high-profile oral arguments. Among those, the NetChoice cases, which will decide to what extent states can stop social media companies from censoring users because of their political views. Your hosts discuss those cases and a handful of others that challenge the powers of administrative agencies. GianCarlo then interviews John Vecchione, a grizzled veteran of the war against the administrative state, who has brought several high-profile cases to the Supreme Court. Last up, Zack quizzes GianCarlo with trivia about technology at SCOTUS.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. I'm John Carlo Conoparo. I'm Zach Smith. And welcome to |
| 0:09.5 | SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, |
| 0:15.1 | and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome back to SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:28.4 | It's good to be back. We've got a lot to cover, so we'll get right to it. First up, |
| 0:32.4 | we'll do orders. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear former President Trump's immunity case. The question, which will be argued the week of April 22nd, is whether and if so to what extent |
| 0:40.0 | does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct |
| 0:46.2 | alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office? Stay tuned. That will certainly be a |
| 0:52.5 | very big case. Yeah, this is shaping up to be a big election |
| 0:56.1 | law term. The court refused to take an important case, this one challenging the racially |
| 1:01.6 | discriminatory admissions procedures used at Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, |
| 1:06.2 | Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, a once elite high school in Northern Virginia, did something |
| 1:10.7 | similar to what Harvard did in the case last term. |
| 1:13.7 | It reduced the number of Asian and white students, but unlike Harvard, it was clever about how it did it. |
| 1:19.3 | It didn't engage in explicit race discrimination. |
| 1:22.0 | Rather, Thomas Jefferson figured out how to reduce the numbers of Asians and whites through a host of race-neutral |
| 1:27.6 | means. For example, because it knows where most Asians live, it de-emphasized applications |
| 1:34.4 | from those zip codes and a host of other racially neutral but discriminatory in effect |
| 1:39.8 | tools. Now, this case, the challenge to these sorts of tools, seemed like a slam dunk after |
| 1:45.9 | students' for fair admissions versus Harvard, but the court refused to take the case, leaving |
| 1:50.3 | Thomas Jefferson's racially discriminatory admissions processes in place. Justice Thomas and |
| 1:56.0 | Justice Alito would have taken the case, calling the lower court's decisions aberrant. |
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