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Divided Argument

Unspeakable Cruelty

Divided Argument

Will Baude & Dan Epps

Constitution, Constitutional Law, News, Law, Politics, Supreme Court, Government, Legal System, Supreme Court Of The United States, U.s. Supreme Court, Scotus, Supreme Court Justice

4.9676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Divided Argument is live from the University of Chicago Law School! In our first ever episode in front of a live studio audience, we catch up on recent Court-related developments, such as several Justices' recent public remarks pushing back on Court politicization and the Court's latest foray into whether capital prisoners can have spiritual advisors with them in the execution chamber.

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0:00.0

Oh, yay, oh, yay, oh, yay, oh, yeah.

0:03.4

The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court.

0:08.1

Unless there's any more question, be able to find an argument in this case.

0:10.9

The whole person having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are in mind us to give their attention.

0:19.2

Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unpredictable, live and in-person podcast.

0:25.9

I'm Dan Epps.

0:26.7

And I'm Will Bode.

0:27.8

Well, let's see.

0:29.0

This is my first time in a classroom in 566 days.

0:32.9

First in-person event for the Constitutional Law Institute here at Chicago.

0:36.4

We'll have more.

0:38.2

And most importantly,

0:43.8

the first live recording of our podcast. First of two this week, actually. Yeah. Although I suspect there will be the only two of 2021 for some time. This is my first foray into live speaking of any kind

0:50.6

in a mask. I wouldn't recommend it, but let's get started. So we have about an hour,

0:57.2

and we haven't recorded in a couple weeks, and, you know, court's not in session, but court

1:03.3

seems to be generating news year round now. Yeah, I missed the time when the court would just go on

1:07.4

vacation, and nobody would have to think about them until afterclasses started. Yeah,

1:10.8

although they would give us less ammunition for our podcast. Yeah.

1:14.1

So what have we got? So one thing to note is just like University of Chicago, just like Washington

1:20.1

University, the Supreme Court is also resuming in-person activities, although with some restrictions.

1:26.8

They're going to be holding the fall or arguments in

1:30.3

person, but with a largely empty courtroom. Yeah, so the lawyers are allowed to be there. The press is

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