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Divided Argument

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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

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Divided Argument is live from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, hosted by the Northwestern Federalist Society! We discuss whether we are in the middle of a constitutional crisis, the coming demise of Humphrey's Executor, and various shadow docket developments. Then we preview the issues at stake in next month's oral argument about firearms liability, Smith & Wesson v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

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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.

0:19.6

Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unpredictable,

0:22.7

Supreme Court podcast. I'm Dan Epps. And I'm Will Bowd.

0:25.7

So, Will, we are doing another live show. It had been a while since we had done one,

0:32.1

and now we're really back in the saddle. We are in your home territory of Chicago, Illinois at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

0:40.8

I'm told that if I don't say Pritzker, I get in trouble. Well, I think the Pritzker's.

0:44.9

If you don't say Pritzker often enough, eventually Northwestern gets in trouble because they have to get the money back.

0:48.6

Yeah. Well, and also isn't like Pritzker also the governor? So he has, you know, power here? There are a lot of Pritzker's.

0:54.6

Okay, fair enough.

0:56.2

We are guests in the Northwestern Federal Society, so the people listening on the show

0:59.9

can't see this, but there's a giant banner with James Madison's head in purple next to Dan.

1:05.4

And then I'm wearing my Federal Society lapel pin over here, just to make sure he feels.

1:09.2

I am not.

1:10.0

And in fact, I do not own one.

1:12.5

Um, there, there is food here. Uh, it is strangely not Chick-fil-A. Uh, the Federal Society

1:18.9

at my school only serves Chick-fil-A. So maybe things are different. Uh, this part of the country.

1:23.7

Um, so, uh, we have a number of things to talk about. Unfortunately, the court has not given us any new

1:31.4

merits opinions, which are sort of our bread and butter. And so we have to scrape a little bit.

1:36.6

But as always, there's news. There's things that are relevant to listeners. And we will do our

1:42.7

best. So where to begin, Will? Well, the question everybody

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