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Divided Argument

Will Baude & Dan Epps

Constitution, Constitutional Law, News, Law, Politics, Supreme Court, Government, Legal System, Supreme Court Of The United States, U.s. Supreme Court, Scotus, Supreme Court Justice

4.9 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Will and Dan break down the Court's fascinating decision yesterday in Van Buren v. United States, which interpreted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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0:00.0	Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Oh, yeah. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court.
0:08.0	Unless there is any more question to be able to find an argument in this case.
0:10.8	All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are in mind us to give their attention.
0:19.5	Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unpredictable, Supreme Court podcast.
0:24.5	I'm Dan Apps.
0:25.9	And I'm well-bode.
0:27.0	So, Will.
0:27.7	We recapped a bunch of opinions last time, and the court had another opinion release day.
0:33.3	We're recording today on Thursday, June 3rd, and they only gave us one, Van Buren
0:40.1	versus United States, but it's an interesting one. So we thought we would do another episode
0:43.2	to talk about it. What do you think of this one? Yeah, and it's a big one, too. So I'll just
0:47.2	start off by saying, I feel like we sometimes have a pretense to objectivity around here, and I just
0:52.5	want to make clear I don't think I could possibly be objective about this opinion. It is argued and won by one of my favorite Supreme
0:59.4	Court advocates, Jeff Fisher, supported in an amicus brief by one of my favorite scholars,
1:03.7	Orin Kerr, written by one of my favorite justices, Amy Barrett, employing textualism,
1:08.4	one of my favorite methodologies, to rule for the defendant
1:11.6	in a federal criminal case, one of my favorite results.
1:14.1	In support of computer hacking, which is one of your favorite activities, right?
1:18.6	That's not hacking, Dan.
1:19.4	It's not hacking.
1:20.0	Well, that's the question.
1:22.0	Yeah, so there's a lot of things going on.
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