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The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court.

Unless there is any more question to be able to find an argument in this case.

All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to give their attention.

Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unap predictable Supreme Court podcast.

I'm Will Bode.

And I'm Dan Epps.

So, Will, I feel like we always have to start each of these episodes with an apology for the truly unscheduled and unpredictable nature of the show.

It has been, this might be our longest.

Two months. Is that a record? Yeah. I mean, for the given the short life of the show. It has been, this might be our longest. Two months. Is that a record?

Yeah. I mean, for the given the short life of the show, I think it probably is. What's your excuse?

I was waiting for you. Yeah. Okay. My excuse had another baby. Okay. Good excuse. Early January. Pretty good excuse, right? Caspian J. Epps was born in January 4th.

So I've been busy. So everybody who's been giving me a hard time, don't you feel like a jerk now for taking me away from

child-rearing responsibilities? I'm also, you know, I'm still doing other stuff from teaching, running all these committees.

So it's been a busy time. But we're back. Sure. All I listen is feel like jerks now. Yeah. Luckily, nothing happened with the Supreme Court in the last two months, right?

I haven't really been paying attention. So can you get me up to speed? Yeah, I did assume

December, January, like how much can we miss? We've got to take a month off. Yeah, that's why the baby was timed that way. You know, you time everything around the court schedule, right? Right. Yeah. Well,

I have really terrible news for you, Dan. Your favorite justice on the Supreme Court is not going to

be in the Supreme Court anymore starting next fall. Which one? Stephen Breyer. Oh, okay. Yeah,

favorite. It's quite a, quite a sarcastic comment from you there, Will. Yeah, Justice Breyer has finally decided to, that it will not, I guess he decided it will not politicize the court more for him to step down now. It would have politicized the court more for him to step down last year, but maybe he thought if he doesn't step down now, it'll politicize the court more for him to step down last year. But maybe he thought if he doesn't step down now,

it'll politicize the court more for him to step down next year if there's Republican Senate and they

don't fill the seat. So he is stepping down. I assume all along he kind of knew this was the year

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