I'm Elizabeth Lattery 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.

This week, I'm joined by Sean Marotta from Hogan Levels.

Thanks for joining me, Sean.

Thanks for having me.

So first let's hit some SCOTUS headlines. First up,

Justice Clarence Thomas, says that he's not going anywhere. He appeared at a Pepperdine Law School

dinner last week, and Jim Gash, who is a professor at the law school, asked about retirement plans.

The justice made it clear that he has no plans to retire anytime soon.

And he's currently the most senior member, having spent 27 years on the court.

So here's hoping that he will stay on the court for many more years.

At the Pepperdine dinner, he also talked about his efforts to hire law clerks from schools outside the Ivy League.

He said that he looks for applicants who are hungry and don't seem entitled. He said, the default generally has been the ivies and

the schools that are similar to them, but there are smart kids in lots of places. Indeed, he was the

first justice to hire a clerk from my alma mater, George Mason.

And that former clerk, Will Concevoy, has gone on to do some pretty great things, including representing the Asian Americans in their discrimination suit against Harvard.

So moving on to what's happening at the court.

The court granted cert in one new case.

This is Kansas versus Glover, and the issue is whether for purposes of an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment,

it is reasonable for an officer to suspect that the registered owner of a vehicle is the one

driving the vehicle absent any information to the contrary. So a police officer in Douglas

County, Kansas, ran a registration check on a pickup truck that he saw and discovered that the owner's

license had been revoked. So he stopped the truck and issued a citation. And this ended up going

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