Religious Liberty On The Docket
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week the news may be focused on the election, but the Supreme Court is carrying on with business as usual. Your hosts discuss oral arguments, focusing on Fulton v. Philadelphia, the Catholic adoption services case, and Jones v. Mississippi, the Eighth Amendment challenge to life sentences without parole for minors. Amy interviews Laura Wolk who is the first blind Supreme Court clerk, and GianCarlo pulls out all the stops with election-law trivia. Will Amy leave any hanging chads? Join us and find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.3 | 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. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:29.5 | Welcome back. John Carlo, what is our show lineup for today? |
| 0:35.5 | Amy, we have oral argument updates, Justice Barrett's first questions at oral argument. |
| 0:40.9 | We have an interview with Justice Barrett's former Locke student, Laura Walk, and we have election law trivia. |
| 0:43.4 | Hey, G.C., has anything significant or, I don't know, if national importance been happening |
| 0:50.4 | this week? |
| 0:50.9 | I just, I can't help but feeling like we're missing an update on something |
| 0:56.6 | that I don't know, might have potential SCOTUS implications. |
| 1:01.8 | You know, I think this is a good time to take some advice from Sergeant Schultz. I hear |
| 1:07.4 | nothing. I see nothing. |
| 1:11.6 | But you can't think of anything at all. |
| 1:14.8 | No, we've got it. |
| 1:16.0 | We've got a whole bucket load of election litigation. |
| 1:18.9 | Oh, the election, that thing. |
| 1:22.1 | Yes, there is certainly going to be a lot of election litigation. |
| 1:26.9 | There will probably be many rapidly evolving changes and |
| 1:29.8 | updates over the course of the next couple of weeks. So today we're just going to highlight |
| 1:33.9 | just a couple high profile challenges, but we also recommend that interested listeners |
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