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Advisory Opinions

Is ‘Text, History, and Tradition’ Alive and Well?

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Kannon Shanmugam and his summer associates return to Advisory Opinions to look back on the SCOTUS term and discuss the state of “text, history, and tradition.” The Agenda: —Big themes from this SCOTUS term —Was this the administrative law term? —Should we stop thinking about SCOTUS “terms”? —The health of the First Amendment —“The media now owns Amy Coney Barrett” —Justice Thomas’ dissent in Rahimi —Sarah’s summary of this term —Questions from summer associates Show Notes: —Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo —Moody v. NetChoice —FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine —National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo —SEC v. Jarkesy —Trump v. Anderson —Trump v. United States —United States v. Rahimi —New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen —Justice Samuel Alito’s WSJ op-ed —Sarah’s 3-3-3 theory —Christian Laettner’s shot against Kentucky 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. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger, that's David French and and that's right, it's our fourth annual Supreme Court roundup with the one and only Canon Shan McGann from Paul Weiss.

0:30.0

Thanks for joining.

0:31.0

It's great to be here.

0:32.0

And we're here with your summer associates once again

0:35.2

in Paul Weiss's just a luxurious, well, conference room?

0:41.7

What is this normally? It's our luxurious windowless conference room, that's right.

0:45.0

Yeah, lots of TVs though.

0:46.2

Looks good for depositions.

0:47.4

Cannon, we're very honored to have you with us for a fourth consecutive year,

0:52.4

but you're also honored to be with us more than you know because little did you

0:57.1

know until today that you're on the number eight political podcast I don't

1:02.2

know why we're classified as political in the whole

1:04.7

United States of America for some brief and shining moments last week.

1:07.8

Well that seems like bumper sticker material. Yes. We're not great. We're

1:12.0

number eight. We're number eight. Of course, we won't tell you what one through seven was or else it all kind of,

1:18.0

the shine comes off pretty quickly.

1:19.0

The shine comes off very quickly.

1:21.0

I was wondering, but I'll just go back and look at my office afterwards.

1:23.3

Yeah, yeah, don't do it. All right, so rather than run through specific cases and revisit all that stuff,

1:30.6

I thought we would just do some scotous term themes. So first off, let's start

1:38.0

with unanimity and how we think about big cases and that sort of stuff because the Supreme Court term once again saw about half the cases decided unanimously and by and large that meets with the last 20 years or so,

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