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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

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to the Harvard Law Review, we recorded a live episode in the famed Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. While we hoped to discuss merits cases, the Court gave us far too much shadow docket activity to break down.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, yay.

0:02.0

Oh, yay.

0:03.1

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, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. I'm Dan Epps.

0:24.4

And I'm Will Bode. Do you remember that time we were recording an episode and I like forgot the lead-in?

0:30.9

No. I was like we're an unscheduled, you know.

0:34.1

There's a couple of times I've messed it up, but you made me redo it. I haven't done that live so far, but we have gotten some pushback from people who say

0:42.2

our live shows, and this is one.

0:44.4

We'll tell you where we are in a second.

0:47.0

We're a little nervous.

0:48.3

Yeah.

0:48.6

At least we sound that way.

0:49.5

So where are we, Will?

0:51.5

We're at Harvard Law School.

0:53.0

This is a live show sponsored by the nation's leading law review, Harvard Law Review. One of the nation's leading law reviews. T1. An excellent law review. Yeah. You're contractually bound not to agree with me, right? Aren't you, are you still the president of the Yale Law Journal Association? No, my term as president has finally ended. So I no longer have a fiduciary duty

1:16.1

to promote the Yale Law Journal as the best law journal in America. But is, are there term limits?

1:21.5

There are. There are ways, I hear there are ways around term limits systems.

1:28.9

You know, El Salvador actually did this.

1:30.5

The president of El Salvador is supposed to be term limited.

1:36.5

And the El Salvador Supreme Court, he packed the El Salvador Supreme Court and then got them to interpret the term limits amendment in a technical way they didn't apply to him.

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