Three Cheers for Thirty Years

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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There were no oral arguments this week, but there were a few noteworthy orders and a great milestone: Justice Clarence Thomas's 30th year on the bench! Zack discusses the orders, which include an expedited briefing and oral argument schedule in two challenges to the Texas abortion law. Your hosts also discuss the recent symposium hosted by The Heritage Foundation and The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State celebrating Justice Thomas's life, legacy, and jurisprudence. You can find recordings of that event here. GianCarlo also interviews Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham, who talks about his unexpected journey to a career in the law, his studies at Cambridge, and his clerkships for two legendary judges. Lastly, GianCarlo quizzes Zack with Justice Thomas themed trivia!

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0:00.0	Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court.
0:05.8	I'm John Carlo Canoparo.
0:07.8	I'm Zach Smith.
0:09.0	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.
0:21.1	Welcome back to SCOTUS 101.
0:23.9	Welcome back, GC. It's good to be here again with you.
0:27.8	You know, it's been a fairly quiet two weeks at the court. There haven't been any oral
0:32.4	arguments, but there has been some exciting news related to the court and a couple of noteworthy orders I thought we could talk about today.
0:40.5	Yes. On the news front, last week marked Justice Clarence Thomas's 30th year on the court.
0:47.0	I hope for 30 more. 30 more years.
0:49.6	We here at Heritage, along with the Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State over at George Mason's Law School, held a symposium to discuss and celebrate the justice's legacy.
1:00.0	We had panels of federal judges, law professors, and Supreme Court litigators who discussed Justice Thomas's jurisprudence on federalism and the separation of powers, civil rights, the role of natural law, and on
1:11.5	originalism. We also had a conversation with the producer and the developer of the documentary
1:16.4	about Justice Thomas's life. The documentary is called Created Equal, Justice Thomas, in his own words.
1:22.8	It's a phenomenal watch, and I highly recommend it. And we also had a discussion by four legendary
1:28.1	Supreme Court advocates, Noel Francisco, Paul Clement, Jeff Wall, and Lisa Blatt about advocacy
1:34.5	in the Thomas era court. It was a fantastic discussion. Yeah, it was. The whole program was
1:40.2	excellent. And the good news is that if you missed it, it's all recorded. There will be a link in the
1:45.9	description of this episode where you can watch or listen to each of the panels. Now, Zach, turning to
1:51.7	orders, we had some news in the Texas abortion cases. Can you tell us about that? Yeah, absolutely.
1:57.8	So there are two separate cases related to Texas' abortion law, SB8,
2:02.5	and the court decided to set both of them for oral argument on November 1st. By Supreme Court
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