Savin' the Bacon?
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The opinions are coming fast now. This week the Court handed down five, dealing with immigration, wire fraud, the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight Board, and the famous bacon case. Did SCOTUS save the nation's bacon? Tune in to find out and to hear GianCarlo interview the fascinating Justice Caleb Stegall of the Kansas Supreme Court. Lastly, see if you can do better than GianCarlo at trivia about legendary Supreme Court rivalries.
You can read Justice Stegall's resignation letter here, and his law review article, The Ethics of Decision-Making, here.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm John Carlo Canoparo. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:09.0 | 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. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome back to SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome back indeed. |
| 0:25.9 | It seems like those long-awaited SCOTUS opinions are coming fast and furiously now. |
| 0:31.5 | In fact, we got five today. |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah, what a morning it has been. |
| 0:36.0 | Zach, you want to start us off? |
| 0:40.9 | I do. Let me rub my eyes. I think they're a little weary after reading all of the opinions this morning. But first up, we have Santos Garcia v. Garland. |
| 0:48.0 | This was a unanimous judgment, but not the unanimous opinion. And it was weighing on whether a statutory provision is jurisdictional. |
| 0:56.3 | The provision here was a requirement that an illegal alien exhaust administrative remedies |
| 1:01.5 | before a court can hear his appeal from a removal order. |
| 1:05.5 | Now, seven justices believed that it was not jurisdictional. |
| 1:09.5 | Justice Jackson wrote the opinion for everyone. |
| 1:12.2 | However, justices Alito and Thomas only concurred in the judgment. They would not have reached |
| 1:18.4 | the question of jurisdiction because reconsideration of removal orders is discretionary. |
| 1:24.5 | Next up was National Pork Producers versus Ross. |
| 1:28.0 | The baking case. |
| 1:29.1 | That's right. |
| 1:29.7 | You'll remember this as the bacon case. |
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