News, Numbers, and Nothing but Net
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, GianCarlo and Amy examine surprising data collected by Empirical SCOTUS about telephonic oral arguments, a new Roe v. Wade documentary, and emergency petitions to the Court by churches challenging stay-at-home orders. GianCarlo interviews veteran legal journalist Stuart Taylor, Jr., and they discuss his career and the state of the modern news media. Finally, your hosts fill in for ESPN by doing Supreme Court sports trivia. It's sportsball time!
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Amy Swearer. |
| 0:06.9 | And I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:08.5 | 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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.0 | G.C., I have to start off with a confession. |
| 0:31.5 | Do I want to hear this confession? |
| 0:34.5 | You do. |
| 0:35.6 | So there weren't any opinions this week. There weren't any super significant |
| 0:40.6 | cert denials. RBG didn't beat cancer again this week. So I was a little worried coming into this |
| 0:47.7 | that we were going to be like ESPN during coronavirus, covering whatever the SCOTUS equivalent of the world beanbag-throwing |
| 0:56.0 | championship is. |
| 0:57.0 | What is ESPN doing these days? |
| 1:00.0 | Again, I think covering things like here's what Tom Brady made for dinner today. |
| 1:05.0 | And so I was a bit worried that like our version of that would be like, here's an in-depth look at Justice Breyer's morning routine. |
| 1:12.0 | Rividing stuff. |
| 1:13.3 | So do we actually have anything to talk about? |
| 1:18.3 | You know, we actually do not a big week in terms of the court doing things, but a big week in terms of other court-related goings on. |
| 1:27.7 | And for our listeners, I am entirely joking. |
| 1:30.2 | Of course, we have an episode full of things to talk about. |
| 1:34.3 | We have some interesting cases coming down the pipeline, a new documentary on Roe versus Wade, |
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