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Divided Argument
Will Baude & Dan Epps
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Oh, yeah. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court. |
| 0:08.0 | Unless there is any more question to be able to find an argument in this case. |
| 0:10.8 | All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to give their attention. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, |
| 0:22.7 | Unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Dan Epps. |
| 0:25.6 | And I'm Will Bowd. |
| 0:26.9 | So, Will, this is the last live show we're doing of season six, and I think our last one |
| 0:33.9 | on the docket for a little while. |
| 0:35.9 | And it is at perhaps the most August venue |
| 0:39.3 | we've ever done a live show. We are in Washington, D.C. at the American Law Institute annual |
| 0:45.1 | meeting. And for listeners on the show who are less familiar with the ALI, although you should be, |
| 0:50.7 | it's the organization that publishes the highly influential restatements, the |
| 0:55.0 | model penal code, and other projects like that. So we are excited to be here, and we're excited to have |
| 1:01.7 | a guest co-host, Professor Pam Carlin, who is the Kenneth and Harrell Montgomery, Professor |
| 1:08.3 | of Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School, and also, as particularly |
| 1:11.9 | relevant to us, the co-director of the school's Supreme Court litigation clinic. |
| 1:16.3 | And also as relevant to some of the things we're going to talk about, she's one of the |
| 1:19.1 | nation's leading experts on voting in the political process. |
| 1:23.2 | And here at the ALI, she is co-reporter on the forthcoming restatement on constitutional torts. So, Pam, thank you for joining us. Thanks so much for having me. I don't want to get Pam in trouble, but she taught me election law. Well, I just think, you know, almost everything I taught you, it's like Dead Poets Society. You read it. You should stand up and just rip it out of the book because it's not good law anymore. |
| 1:44.9 | And Will, you are now an election law professor, right? You're teaching that at Chicago? And this is, in fact, last time I taught it, we just ripped out the Shelby County Section 5 section. I was like, this is dead law. We're on a court system. You don't even need to know about it. There was one something called Section 5, the Voting Rights Act. Yeah, get rid of Section 2 while we're at it. |
| 2:01.4 | Yeah, well. |
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