Remembering Justice O'Connor
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week your hosts remember Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who passed away last week. Your hosts also discuss the first opinion of this term and the oral arguments from this week and last, which included challenges to administrative tribunals and to taxes on unrealized gains. GianCarlo then interviews Eleventh Circuit Judge Andrew Brasher. And finally, GianCarlo quizzes Zack with trivia about Justice O'Connor's life and career.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:08.4 | 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. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:23.8 | G.C., how are you doing? |
| 0:25.5 | I'm great, Zach. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:27.6 | This is SCOTUS 101 on the road. |
| 0:30.1 | So if our microphone sounds a little funny, please forgive us. |
| 0:33.6 | We're in New York City for an event this week, |
| 0:36.1 | but we're happy to be back because the court is back in action. |
| 0:40.3 | G.C., we got a little sad news these past weeks with the passing of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, |
| 0:46.0 | who I'm sure many of our listeners know was the first woman appointed to the court. |
| 0:50.4 | And while no one probably agreed with all of her opinions while she served on the court, |
| 0:55.5 | the outpouring of support for her family and friends in the wake of her death has been very moving to see. |
| 1:01.5 | Yes, it has. |
| 1:03.0 | Zach, courts moving fall ahead with orders. |
| 1:05.7 | Can you walk us through those? |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, we actually got our first opinion of the term, which shouldn't have come as surprise, |
| 1:12.1 | but it came a little early to me, it seemed like. The first opinion was in Atchison Hotels |
| 1:17.9 | versus Lawford. This was a unanimous decision by Justice Barrett, where the court vacated the |
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