Justice Barrett Makes Her Majority Debut
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week the Court heard oral arguments in a voting rights case where Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich was both the petitioner and advocate. Zack unpacks that oral argument, and GianCarlo discusses the oral arguments in two other cases that involve challenges to patent and Social Security administrative law judges. This week also saw Justice Barrett issue her first majority opinion! GianCarlo interviews Eleventh Circuit Judge Britt Grant, and Zack quizzes GianCarlo with trivia about the justices' educational backgrounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm John Carlo Canoparo. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:08.4 | 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. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.7 | How are you doing this week, G.C.? Are you ready to dive on into things? |
| 0:28.5 | You bet, Zach. Any interesting orders? |
| 0:31.0 | There are. Last Friday, the court ordered a California county to allow churches to hold |
| 0:36.5 | indoor worship services, the order was |
| 0:39.2 | brief and it said that the outcome was, quote, clearly dictated by the court's earlier opinion |
| 0:44.8 | in South Bay Pentecostal. The court also took up two new cases, both involving Social Security |
| 0:51.6 | benefits. The first case will decide whether Congress violated the |
| 0:56.2 | Equal Protection Clause by excluding Puerto Rico from the Supplemental Security Income Program, |
| 1:02.7 | and the second case will decide whether pensions for a dual status technician, that is, |
| 1:08.7 | someone who is in the military, but is paid partly as a civil |
| 1:12.7 | servant and partly as a member of the military, depending on the work performed, are, quote, |
| 1:18.2 | payments based wholly on service as a member of the uniform service for purposes of the Social |
| 1:24.4 | Security Act. This matters because if the member's pension is not based wholly on military service, |
| 1:31.6 | then a windfall elimination provision of the Act reduces his Social Security benefits. |
| 1:37.9 | We had three oral arguments this week. |
| 1:40.8 | First up is United States v. Arthrax. |
| 1:44.0 | The question there is, are administrative |
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