The Case is Submitted
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The term is over, and what an ending it was! Presidents are entitled to broad immunity for official acts, Chevron deference is no more, the Seventh Amendment applies against the administrative state, nobody gets to sue over social media censorship, and the 8th Amendment does not prohibit anti-camping laws. These are the holdings of just a few of the blockbuster cases released in the last few days of this term. After your hosts discuss those cases, GianCarlo gets one last chance to stump Zack in trivia, and then they follow the Court into the summer recess.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:08.4 | And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, |
| 0:13.3 | what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.2 | The court finally concluded its long term. |
| 0:27.7 | It spilled over into July, but it saved some of the biggest decisions of the term for its very last day. |
| 0:33.8 | Zach, why don't you start us off with maybe, depending on your perspective, the biggest case of the |
| 0:39.0 | term, Trump versus the United States? Yeah, this was certainly a case that I think everyone was |
| 0:44.5 | very anxious for the court to release. And now that it has been released, it certainly didn't |
| 0:49.7 | disappoint. This was a 6 to 3 decision by Chief Justice John Roberts, where he was joined by |
| 0:55.0 | Justice Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. They all joined the Chief Justice in full, |
| 1:00.4 | and Justice Barrett joined the Chief's opinion, except as to Part 3C. Now, this decision at the end |
| 1:07.7 | of the day was a big win for Donald Trump and a big win for the presidency |
| 1:12.1 | more broadly because the court held that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for actions |
| 1:18.1 | taken within their, quote, conclusive and preclusive sphere of authority that the Constitution |
| 1:24.0 | granted to them. Think pardons. The Constitution clearly gives the President the power |
| 1:29.1 | to pardon individuals, and regardless of whether Congress passes any law trying to restrict |
| 1:34.3 | that power, passes a law trying to criminalize that power, that doesn't matter. The President |
| 1:40.1 | clearly has that power according to the Constitution and would enjoy absolute immunity for |
| 1:46.4 | any actions he takes around exercising that power. Now, the court also held that presidents |
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