The End of the Term
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We've reached the end of the term after a blockbuster month and an incredibly full week of orders and opinions. Your hosts wish farewell to Justice Breyer who is now officially retired and welcome Justice Ketanji Jackson. This week the Court decided all of its remaining cases including West Virginia v. EPA, a challenge to a power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency, Biden v. Texas, a challenge to Biden's attempt to cancel the Remain-in-Mexico policy, and Kennedy v. Bremerton School district, which involved a school coach who was fired for praying privately after games. Your hosts discuss these and more. Of course, no term could conclude without GianCarlo trying to stump Zack with trivia, and this week it's all about interesting statistics about this term.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm John Carlo Canoparo. |
| 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. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101, and welcome back to you, G.C. |
| 0:24.3 | Thank you, Zach. I'm glad to be back to finish out the term, and it is indeed the end of the term. |
| 0:31.0 | And what a term it has been. Now, since it's the end of the term, this also means that we bid farewell to Justice Breyer, |
| 0:39.5 | whose last day on the court was recorded as June 30th, 2022. And we also welcome Justice Kittanji |
| 0:46.6 | Brown Jackson to the court. While we have some doubts, we do hope that she continues to echo |
| 0:52.1 | and more importantly apply, the textualist talking points |
| 0:56.1 | she brought up during her confirmation hearing. |
| 0:58.0 | Certainly. |
| 0:59.0 | Do you see what's happening on the orders front this week? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, it was a very busy week on the orders front. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll highlight a few of them for you. |
| 1:07.0 | There was a noteworthy denial in the case of Coral Ridge Ministries versus the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
| 1:13.1 | Now, this case comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling that Christian ministry a hate group because of its traditional beliefs about marriage. |
| 1:22.1 | Because of that label, Amazon blocked the ministry from receiving charitable donations through its platforms. |
| 1:28.3 | So the ministry sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation, but it lost because the lower courts held that it couldn't prove that the Southern Poverty Law Center acted with actual malice. |
| 1:38.7 | That's the standard that comes from that case called New York Times v. Sullivan. |
| 1:43.6 | Justice Thomas dissented from the denial of certiorari. |
| 1:46.7 | He has made clear in other cases that he thinks we need to revisit New York Times versus Sullivan. |
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