The VanDyke Show
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Going into its three week "working recess," the Court was relatively quiet, issuing a few orders and one DIG. What's a DIG? GianCarlo explains that, while Zack explains Munsingwear vacatur. GianCarlo then interviews Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke who shares his unusual path to law school and reveals why GianCarlo has dubbed him the modern-day Serranus Hastings. Finally, Zack holds his own in trivia about SCOTUS nicknames!
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm John Carlo Canoparo. |
| 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, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to SC Scotus 101. |
| 0:22.7 | G.C., can you believe it's time for another episode already? |
| 0:26.3 | Zach, it's a curious thing about pandemics. |
| 0:28.6 | They seem to make you lose all sense of the passage of time. |
| 0:31.9 | I completely agree with that. |
| 0:34.7 | So tell us, what's been going on at the Supreme Court this week? |
| 0:37.9 | Well, it's been another relatively quiet week, but in notable news, the Chief Justice will |
| 0:42.7 | not be presiding over Trump's second impeachment trial. Instead, Senator Patrick Leahy, |
| 0:48.3 | the president pro tempore of the Senate, will do so. In other news, the Biden administration |
| 0:53.5 | also announced that's moving forward with |
| 0:55.6 | a commission to study potential reforms to the federal judiciary, including to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:00.9 | The commission will be housed out of the White House Counsel's office, and while its membership is |
| 1:05.6 | still being filled out, according to a Politico report earlier this week, Bob Bauer, Biden's campaign lawyer, |
| 1:12.6 | Christina Rodriguez, a Yale law school professor and Obama DOJ official, |
| 1:17.5 | Carolyn Fredrickson, a former president of the American Constitution Society, |
| 1:22.5 | and Jack Goldsmith, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, a Harvard Law School professor, and Bush DOJ |
| 1:29.5 | official will all be members. Bauer and Rodriguez will co-chair the commission. |
| 1:35.5 | And the court is taking now its working recess every year, for the last few years at least, |
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