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Welcome back. This is Strix Grootney, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. And once again, we are a podcast that so fierce. It is fatal. In fact, I'm Melissa Murray from NYU Law and joining me today is Jeannie Santos from Goodwin.

I am really excited to see Melissa.

I know this is our first time going solo. So as you might guess, dear listener, Kate and Leah are out for the day. So it's just me and Jamie and we are feeling incredible pressure to keep the energy going.

I think we're not going to have a problem with energy. We're pretty high energy folks, but I will say I thought that Kate and Leah's episode was really fun to listen to. So I hope that we do justice to what they covered last time.

Okay, I think we will. We've got a lot of really great stuff to cover. There's been a lot of interesting things happening at the court that we have to talk about.

So our format will pretty much follow the ordinary course of events. We'll cover some breaking news and non-marits, docket updates. And then we'll do a recap of the December arguments and then discuss some of the new cert grants and opinions.

We just got some opinions so we can talk about that and we'll finish everything off with a little holiday court culture.

Excellent. So a big development, I think, is that as we've talked about before, the SG has filed a lot of motions for stay. This particular SG Steve Lodic has a larvy article that talks about how the SG has filed 20 times more motions for a stay of lower court decisions than past SGs.

And someone actually successfully blocked the SG from obtaining one of those stays. So this is a case called bar versus groan. It involves the resumption of federal executions that we're supposed to start this week.

Basically just to give a quick summary, although there are many, a number of federal defendants on death row, no executions have taken place in more than a decade.

Because the government was reviewing its execution protocol, pursuant to recent legislation and basically the legislation required federal executions to be implemented in a manner prescribed by state law.

And so in July, the Bureau of Presence issued new guidance that said we're going to create a federal execution protocol and said, and we're going to start this right, right away.

Basically executions were supposed to start this week and they were there were supposed to be five within a month.

And there were a group of respondents who challenged those execution the execution protocol. And they were they are represented by Tate Stetson, who is a fabulous appellate advocate and the co chair of a Hogan's appellate group.

And the district court granted a motion for preliminary injunction and the DC circuit actually denied a stay.

And I should note that the DC circuit was a not particularly liberal leaning panel. So it was judges Griffith judge Rao, who's one of the newer appointees and judge Rogers.

And when that happened, the SG filed a motion for a stay in Supreme Court and the Supreme Court denied it.

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