The Court [and the Show] Must Go On
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A new term begins! Amy and GianCarlo launch the new season with a tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. GianCarlo previews some of the biggest legal issues facing the Court this term, and Amy discusses this week's oral arguments. The duo also interview their colleague, Thomas Jipping, who is an expert on the confirmation process, and the three of them look at the road ahead of SCOTUS nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Last up, GianCarlo tries to stump Amy with confirmation-related trivia.
If you'd like to hear more about the biggest cases of this term, you may enjoy watching The Heritage Foundation's preview of the term with The Honorable Paul Clement, and Eric Citron available here: https://www.heritage.org/courts/event/virtual-event-supreme-court-preview-the-2020-2021-term.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Amy Swearer. |
| 0:06.9 | And I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:08.5 | 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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to a brand new season of SCOTUS 101. Welcome. And can you |
| 0:26.2 | believe it's already fall? Yeah, it's already a brand new SCOTUS term. I mean, like, I get it. It's |
| 0:32.1 | 2020. Time is a square circle. The spring was both a lifetime ago and basically yesterday and also probably |
| 0:39.6 | will be tomorrow. But here we are. Brand new scotus term, let's do this. Well, obviously the biggest |
| 0:46.8 | news is the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away on September 18th from |
| 0:52.6 | cancer-related complications. |
| 0:55.0 | We'd be remiss if we didn't begin with a tribute to her long career on the bench. |
| 1:00.4 | G.C., I would like to just take a few minutes and express a little bit of the applause |
| 1:06.8 | that has been on my heart for Justice Ginsburg's life and career. Like many thousands of people, |
| 1:15.2 | I spent a long time waiting in a socially distanced line in a dress on a weeknight during a |
| 1:22.2 | pandemic in order to pay my respects to Justice Ginsburg as she lay in repose on the steps of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:29.3 | Now, there are certainly those who might find this a bit shocking. |
| 1:32.3 | After all, I often vehemently disagreed with her and her judicial philosophy. |
| 1:37.3 | But, and I hope this has been readily apparent, I have also always had a deep respect and admiration for Justice Ginsburg. |
| 1:48.1 | Despite all of the differences between our respective views of the law, Justice Ginsburg and |
| 1:53.4 | women like her not only paved the way before me as a woman attorney, but they sometimes cut |
| 1:59.2 | down trees and blasted through mountains to clear a path |
| 2:02.1 | that didn't otherwise exist. Where law schools actively recruited me, Justice Ginsburg would have |
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