Sex in the Text
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, GianCarlo and Amy dive into the two big opinions this week that considered whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act forbids sexual-orientation and gender-identity discrimination and whether the Trump administration acted properly when it rescinded the DACA program. Amy then interviews Judge David Porter of the Third Circuit. And lastly, with textualism all the rage because of the Title VII decision, GC tries to stump Amy with textualism-related trivia!
Here's the link to Amy's article on the Court's refusal to take a Second Amendment case: https://www.heritage.org/firearms/commentary/justices-continue-long-shameful-silence-second-amendment
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.5 | 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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:23.8 | Howdy, howdy, howdy. |
| 0:25.2 | We have a lot to talk about this week. |
| 0:28.1 | So without any further chit-chat, let's get right to it. |
| 0:32.1 | We had four opinions out this week, two big ones. |
| 0:35.6 | So we're going to get right to them after Amy updates us |
| 0:39.0 | about the cases that the court did not take up. Lost in all of the Monday hubbub over the court's |
| 0:45.8 | opinion release and then the resulting crash of the Supreme Court website was the reality |
| 0:52.1 | of what the court declined to take up for the next term. |
| 0:55.8 | Despite having a slew of Second Amendment cases to choose from, and despite also having four |
| 1:00.6 | justices who have recently signaled a desire for the court to take up a Second Amendment case, |
| 1:05.2 | the court instead denied Sertia Rari in all of the ten pending Second Amendment cases remaining on its docket. |
| 1:13.8 | This is incredibly disappointing for a lot of people and seems to suggest that this is not a matter |
| 1:19.7 | of the court simply waiting for the right opportunity. Rather, it seems to be at this point that the |
| 1:25.7 | four other conservative justices are not very sure what Chief Justice John Roberts would do in such a Second Amendment case. |
| 1:34.5 | I think the $10 million question is, why isn't Roberts telling at least his colleagues enough that they can decide to take up a case or not. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah, to me, the thing that makes the most sense is not necessarily that anyone suspects Roberts |
| 1:50.8 | has rethought his positions in Heller or McDonald, since he joined those without reservation. |
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