Tales from the D.C. Circuit
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
With oral arguments over and the term on the home stretch, the Court is issuing opinions at high speed. But before they issued this week's opinions, the Justices threw a curve-ball at court watchers by taking Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a major abortion case that could see the court overturn or rein in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Your hosts discuss that case and the four opinions handed down this week. Among them, two major criminal procedure cases, one civil procedure case, and a stinging rebuke to the IRS for engaging in administrative shenanigans. Zack interviews Judge Randolph of the D.C. Circuit who shares a wealth of fascinating stories about his career and his many friends from the Circuit who went on to SCOTUS. Lastly, GianCarlo grills Zack with trivia about judicial attire.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:10.0 | And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, |
| 0:15.3 | what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome back to SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.3 | After a couple of quiet weeks at the court, we're in the home stretch with opinions starting to come out fast and furiously. |
| 0:31.0 | G.C., how many opinions are we still waiting on for the court to decide? |
| 0:35.6 | We're still waiting on 29, and usually they finish up by the end of June, early July, |
| 0:41.3 | so it's going to be breakneck speed. |
| 0:44.3 | All right. Well, I know we had several opinions come out this week, |
| 0:48.3 | so you're ready to talk about those and some of the orders that came down? |
| 0:52.3 | Absolutely. I'll start off with orders. |
| 0:55.1 | We got big news on the abortion front. |
| 0:58.5 | After passing this case off from conference to conference for months, leading to speculation |
| 1:03.8 | that the court was going to deny taking the case and that people were writing fiery dissents, |
| 1:10.0 | the court has actually agreed |
| 1:11.2 | to hear Dobbs versus Jackson women's health. |
| 1:14.9 | The only question the court will consider is the following, whether all pre-viability prohibitions |
| 1:20.3 | on elective abortions are unconstitutional. |
| 1:24.0 | The Mississippi law at issue here bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, with |
| 1:28.5 | some exceptions, and viability typically occurs around 24 weeks. |
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