The $2 Billion Dollar Case

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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David Stras, appeals judge for the 8th Circuit, joins Sarah Isgur and David French at the University of Chicago Law School to discuss complexities of case selection in the Supreme Court, the quality and clarity of judicial opinions, and disagreements with Justice Clarence Thomas. The Agenda: —Recent SCOTUS cases —Supreme Court denies Trump request —SCOTUS kicks bias response teams —Judge Stras' background from Holocaust survivor grandparents —Decline in Supreme Court cases —Cert pool theory —Professionalization of justices has changed the landscape of the court —Post-Rahimi decision-making Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0	Oh, wow. and ready. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French, and we are live at the
0:53.9	University of Chicago
0:54.7	law school home of a cafeteria that would otherwise be depressing except for all the Rothko art.
1:02.0	What is Roscoe art? Oh, David. Mark Rothko is a very famous painter and has these sort of color-based pieces of art that cause one to reflect
1:16.5	and meditate. In fact, in Houston, the number one place that I tell people to go is the Rothko Chapel.
1:22.6	It is a very small round room and the entire wall of which was painted by Barg Rothko. And it is a
1:32.1	wonderful contemplative space in Houston surrounded by all the not contemplative space that is Houston
1:39.3	and its lack of zoning. Nine seconds in, I've already learned something. This is a good plot.
1:45.7	I actually, so I went to Northwestern undergrad,
1:47.9	but my best friend from high school
1:49.1	went to the University of Chicago.
1:50.7	So I was on this campus quite a bit.
1:53.2	And you tell the story about all the time
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