Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court.

I'm John Carlo Conoparo.

I'm Zach Smith.

And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

Welcome back to SCOTUS 101. It's been another busy week

at the court, so full steam ahead. And I'll kick things off with the orders. We had several new cases

that the court agreed to hear for next term. One will consider a challenge to congressional district

maps that the plaintiff alleges were racially gerrymandered.

Another will decide if individual members of Congress have standing to sue agencies to force them to turn over documents that the members have asked for.

And two, we'll dive into the vague morass that is the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Turning to opinions, another blockbuster week with six of them all start with Twitter

and Google. This was a unanimous decision the Twitter case was by Justice Thomas, where the

court held that plaintiffs failed to state a claim that Twitter, Facebook, and Google,

aided and abetted ISIS, the terrorist group, by algorithmically promoting their videos.

ISIS uploaded videos to the social media platforms and the family of one of ISIS's victims sued those companies under the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.

That act imposes liability on anyone who aids and abets terrorism, but it

doesn't define that term. The Supreme Court held that the term has to be given its common

law meaning which is knowing and substantial assistance. The court held that knowing and substantial

assistance can't be given to a transcendent enterprise, but has to be

given with respect to a particular terrorist act. The court held here that the plaintiffs

adequately pleaded aiding and abetting by alleging that the social media companies knew that their

algorithms were promoting their videos, but that the plaintiffs failed to allege that the companies aided and

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