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Supreme Court Term Wrap Up with Kannon Shanmugam

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

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4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

David and Sarah are joined by Kannon Shanmugam, partner at Paul Weiss, for their now traditional end-of-term Supreme Court case roundup. Was this the most significant Supreme Court term of our lifetimes? Plus: it wouldn’t be a traditional episode with Kannon Shanmugam without another round of barbeque reviews.

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and Sarah,

0:23.7

not only do we have a guest, we have a repeat guest.

0:28.6

We are going to talk about Ken and Shanmigan. Do you want to fully introduce your friend,

0:33.9

Cannon, to talk about this Supreme Court term, his own cases before the Supreme Court,

0:38.3

and a little bit of barbecue?

0:40.3

Absolutely. Cannon was with us last term to do our Supreme Court Roundup.

0:44.5

And frankly, it was just so good. Had to do it again. Cannon is a partner at Paul Weiss.

0:50.9

He argued three cases this term will tick through some of those, but also the term as a

0:56.3

criminal. And he's a little bit of a slouch, Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law School,

1:04.5

clerked for Mike Ludig on the fourth circuit, who you might have heard of recently with

1:09.6

his January 6th testimony and some op-eds and some other stuff going on in the Ludigator

1:15.3

world. And then Justice Antonin Scalia.

1:19.0

So lots to talk about, Cannon, I say we skip the serious intro and just get right into

1:25.1

it. Cannon, tell us about your cases and any surprises when you've got the opinions.

1:31.5

Great. Well, first of all, David and Sarah, it's great to be back. And thank you for inviting

1:35.9

me back. I assume that that was just because of our discussion about barbecue and not our

1:39.5

discussion about the Supreme Court. But it's great to be with you to talk about this

1:45.1

incredibly consequential Supreme Court term. I'm not sure that any of the cases that

1:50.3

I argued would make even the top ten list this term such were the significant cases that

1:56.1

the court decided. But as you said, I argued three cases before the Supreme Court this

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