Supreme Crimes & State Constitutions
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, the Court was the scene of several crimes, or rather, several oral arguments about crimes. Your hosts discuss the fascinating issues of double-jeopardy, criminal speech, and out-of-court confessions that those arguments raised. GianCarlo then interviews Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick about his career and his work developing a body law governing state-constitutional interpretation. Trivia continues the criminal law theme focusing on interesting facts about the Court's criminal law cases.
If you're interested in the implications of the Smith case, your hosts recommend this article.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm John Carl O'Connorparo. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:08.8 | 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. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.7 | Zach, any new grants this week? |
| 0:26.9 | We do. We have one new grant. |
| 0:29.3 | The court agreed to hear Atchison Hotels v. Laffer. |
| 0:32.6 | The court will decide whether a self-appointed |
| 0:34.6 | Americans with Disabilities Act tester |
| 0:36.9 | has Article 3 standing to |
| 0:38.8 | challenge a place of public accommodations failure to provide disability accessibility information on its |
| 0:45.0 | website, even if that tester lacks any intention of visiting that place of public accommodation. |
| 0:52.2 | You know, this is an interesting issue. When I was a district court |
| 0:55.4 | law clerk, this issue came up all the time. I'm delighted to see the Supreme Court taking it. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, it will certainly be very interesting to see what they do with this case. And as you say, |
| 1:06.2 | it could have broad-reaching implications. G.C., what do we have for oral arguments this week? |
| 1:12.5 | All right. |
| 1:12.8 | First up, we had a few. |
| 1:14.4 | We won't cover them all in the interest of time, but it was overall a very heavy |
| 1:19.1 | crim law week for the justices. |
| 1:22.5 | The first one that I'll talk about is United States v. Hansen. |
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