When You're So Bad At Your Job, You Make the Supreme Court Look Good By Comparison

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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OA1171 - Today's episode is a nice, fun departure from the doom and gloom. Oral arguments in a recent SCOTUS case went terribly wrong. And for once, it wasn't the court itself that was looking like a clown show. The case was AJT v Osseo and it involved disability rights. So naturally, I had to invite everyone's favorite disability rights advocate and all around all-star, Dr. Jenessa Seymour!

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0:00.0	You're arguing against the side that's advocating for a disabled kid.
0:06.6	And you're like, well, these f***s over here.
0:17.8	This takes forever to go through the courts.
0:20.0	Of course, right.
0:20.8	Yeah. When it's not granting the president. Of course, right. Yeah.
0:21.1	When it's not granting the president godlike immunity, then it does take a while.
0:25.0	Of course.
0:29.2	Baseline compensation for going through illegal hell should be a billion dollars.
0:33.3	Yeah, right.
0:33.8	It should come directly from Elon Musk.
0:36.1	That's my new system.
0:42.9	Okay. That should come directly from Elon Musk. That's my new system. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:45.5	This is episode 1171.
0:48.5	I'm your host Thomas Smith back from crazily enough, a bit of a vacation.
0:53.2	Thanks so much for folks being really nice about that.
0:55.6	Appreciate it. Did get some nice time off and I feel a little refreshed. Today's episode is
1:00.6	extra fun. We get to talk about the Supreme Court and we get to talk about things going badly at
1:05.1	the Supreme Court, but it's not because of them ruining our lives. It's actually because of
1:09.6	something really just crazy
1:11.5	that happened. Someone put on an absolute clinic of how not to argue in front of the Supreme Court.
1:17.1	And it was, I don't even, I'm just, I, you need to hear it yourselves. I'm not going to spoil anything.
1:22.5	It was, wow. It was just wow. It's also a case that has to do with disability rights. And as such, I've got
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