The Dangers of Judicial Supremacy
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
With GC out, Jack Fitzhenry once again joins Zack to dive into what's happening at SCOTUS. They discuss the new cases the Court has agreed to hear, the Rahimi oral argument, and NCAA/sports-related SCOTUS trivia.
Zack then interviews Yonatan Green about the proposed reforms to Israel's judicial system and how those differ from the so-called reforms being proposed here in the United States.
You can read what Zack has written on the issue here: https://lawliberty.org/the-challenges-of-judicial-restraint/
And you can read Yonatan's paper here: https://fedsoc.org/fedsoc-review/the-peculiar-case-of-the-israeli-legal-system
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm John Carl O'Connorparo. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:08.2 | 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. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:23.6 | GC is out again this week, so we're pleased to be joined once again by Jack Fitzhenry. |
| 0:28.2 | Jack, how are you doing? |
| 0:29.5 | Not bad. |
| 0:30.1 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 0:31.1 | So who did you make angry to get pressed into this duty again? |
| 0:36.3 | I'm under an obligation not to disclose. |
| 0:39.2 | Oh, always invoke your Fifth Amendment right. |
| 0:41.1 | A smart man and a great lawyer, I can tell. |
| 0:44.4 | Legally trained here. |
| 0:45.6 | Well, we're glad to have you with us today. |
| 0:48.0 | Let's jump right into it. |
| 0:49.4 | There have actually been a flurry of orders since our last episode, and the court granted |
| 0:53.4 | review in four cases. |
| 0:55.6 | The justices agreed to hear Garland v. Cargill, which is a challenge to the ATF's infamous |
| 1:00.4 | bumpstock ban. A bumpstock, of course, is an attachment that can essentially transform |
| 1:05.4 | a semi-automatic firearm into a fully automatic one. The court also agreed to hear another gun-related case with |
| 1:12.7 | NRA versus Volo, where the court is being asked to decide whether Maria Vullos, who is the then |
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