Listening to a Justice | Interview: Justice Amy Coney Barrett

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joins Sarah Isgur and David French from the Lawyer’s Room at the Supreme Court. They begin with a lightning round of questions (Emergency docket? Certiorari pronunciation?) before diving into ACB’s thoughts on originalism and discussing her new book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution. The Agenda:—Lightning round!—Give up, “equity docket,” David—Do oral arguments even matter anymore?—All about originalism—Life as a Justice Antonin Scalia clerk—Law school: to go or not to go? 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 access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgar. That's David French. And when we come back, you're going to hear from Justice Barrett is our first full podcast with a sitting
0:46.3	Supreme Court Justice. This is A.O. History we're making. Yes, it is. It's A.O. History. And I really
0:52.0	enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the conversation. And, you know, I hope
0:56.9	listeners will too. And we're going to come back afterwards and kind of break down the film a bit.
1:01.9	So stay tuned for after the interview. Here we go. All right, Justice Barrett, we're going to
1:07.4	start with a lightning round. And even worse than that, we're going to start with a case from this coming term that was also argued last term.
1:16.6	Here is the lightning round question.
1:18.6	The word C-A-L-L-A-I-S is the name of the case.
1:24.6	You are from New Orleans originally. This word is coming from Louisiana. The Chief Justice
1:33.3	pronounced it K-Lay. Do you think that's an accurate pronunciation? Well, I would not sit in review
1:40.3	over the Chief Justice, but as a New Or Orleans, if I just saw that, I would say
1:45.7	Kelly.
1:47.0	Okay, next question.
1:48.7	The word in Latin means to be informed.
1:52.3	I have gone through all of your past oral arguments since you've been on this court,
1:56.5	and I have never heard you say the word.
1:59.5	Will you say it for this podcast?
2:01.5	To be informed, I'm embarrassed to say.
2:04.0	I don't know what Latin word you're talking about.
2:07.3	C-E-R-T, letters, letters, letters.
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