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The Counsel

"The Shadow Docket"

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is joined by Harvard Law School student Eli Nachmany. The pair discuss the likelihood of Supreme Court expansion, the Court’s “shadow docket,” and the (increasingly political) process for selecting Supreme Court justices.  Join Elie every Monday and Wednesday on Third Degree for a discussion of the urgent legal news making the headlines. Third Degree takes on a bit of a different flavor on Fridays, when Elie speaks with a rotating slate of America’s most impressive law school students, exclusively for members of CAFE Insider.  Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: https://cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/the-shadow-docket/ Third Degree is brought to you by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network.  Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producer: Sam Ozer-Staton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is third degree.

0:34.5

I'm Ellie Honig.

0:51.0

Thank you. is third degree. I'm Ellie Honig. Well, welcome back, everybody. It's another Friday episode. Everyone knows my favorite episodes because I have company and I love having someone

0:54.9

else to kick things around with. Today we welcome back young Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Nacmani.

0:59.9

Ellie, great to see you again. Hey, great to be here, Ellie. Thanks so much for having me on,

1:03.3

as always. So you have just finished finals, law school finals, correct? That's correct,

1:08.8

glad to be done. It was mostly administrative law and public law

1:12.4

classes this semester, which had a fun feel to it, but really learned a lot. Well, only you, I think,

1:17.3

would describe administrative law as, quote, fun. And that's why we love you here on the podcast.

1:21.9

Your enthusiasm for all things legal. How do you feel? I remember this real sense of just deep relief when finals were

1:29.3

over. I think it's a combination both of relief and also, okay, so what now? So I don't start my

1:34.7

summer job for another couple of weeks. And there's this immense downtime. So, you know,

1:39.6

obviously we're remote, we're home. So I was walking around the house yesterday and just thinking,

1:43.5

well, I've got nowhere to be for a minute or two. And so, you know, you just walk around,

1:47.6

get something to eat or something. Yeah, hop on a podcast now and then. I got to ask you because

1:51.9

I have very visceral memories of this. I assume now your grades just pop up on some sort of

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