Lawfare Before the Bar

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

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The end of the terms is a month away, and the opinions are coming fast. This week, your hosts discuss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau case, a racial redistricting case, and the National Rifle Association's free-speech victory. After that, Zack interviews John Eastman about the lawfare used against him and other lawyers who have represented former President Donald Trump. Last up, inspired by the New York Times' latest conniption fit over flags, GianCarlo quizzes Zack about flags at the Court.

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0:00.0	Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. I'm John Carlo Conoparo. I'm Zach Smith. And welcome to
0:09.6	SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to,
0:15.5	and other things related to our favorite branch of government.
0:22.9	Welcome back to SCOTUS 101.
0:27.8	Welcome back. We've been out for a couple of weeks. We've had several good heritage conferences and other activities we've been attending. But the court has been busy at work, and so we've
0:32.7	got a lot of opinions to cover today. We do indeed. We're entering the home stretch of the term, and so there will be
0:38.7	a lot of cases, and there's a lot of cases to go. So from here on out, they'll probably come fast.
0:44.4	Yeah, that's right. And a lot of the biggest cases of the term are still outstanding. So stay tuned
0:49.4	over the next few weeks as we cover those. But first up today, G.C., what do we have on the orders front?
0:55.7	Yeah, light on the orders. The Supreme Court granted certiorari in San Francisco versus the
1:00.3	Environmental Protection Agency. It's not often that you have a deep blue jurisdiction suing
1:05.2	a Democratic administration over its climate policies, but that is what is happening here.
1:09.7	San Francisco has argued that the
1:11.5	administration's pollution standards are too vague to be followed, and the court will hear arguments next
1:16.5	term. We ordinarily don't address denials, but there were a few cases that I thought were interesting
1:23.1	that the court declined to hear. First up is Murray Nolan versus Rubin. The court refused to take a
1:29.0	free speech retaliation case involving a claim that a school board had an anti-masking advocate
1:34.3	arrested for not wearing a mask at a school board meeting. The court also declined to hear
1:39.3	Parents 1 versus Montgomery County Board of Education. Here, the court refused to hear an appeal from a lower
1:45.3	court decision holding that parents lacked standing to challenge a school district policy of
1:50.9	secretly transitioning minor children into various gender identities and deliberately hiding that
1:56.8	information from parents. And then the court also declined to hear Cunningham v. Florida.
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