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Cases Made for the Movies
SCOTUS 101 - April 27, 2023 21:07 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt has been a very busy few weeks for the Supreme Court. The Court enjoined a lower court order rescinding the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill. It heard oral arguments in a major religious liberty case, a case involving stalking and threats, and a case involving a ma...
Rehearing: Judge Lawrence VanDyke
SCOTUS 101 - April 14, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this Rehearings episode, we replay our interview with the Judge Lawrence VanDyke. Rehearings airs our favorite old interviews on weeks when things are otherwise quiet at the Supreme Court. Follow us on Twitter @scotus101 and @tzsmith. And please send questions, comments, or ideas for future ...
Supreme Crimes & State Constitutions
SCOTUS 101 - March 31, 2023 12:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week, the Court was the scene of several crimes, or rather, several oral arguments about crimes. Your hosts discuss the fascinating issues of double-jeopardy, criminal speech, and out-of-court confessions that those arguments raised. GianCarlo then interviews Arizona Supreme Court Justice C...
Judge Kyle Duncan Talks About Stanford
SCOTUS 101 - March 23, 2023 21:38 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this episode your hosts discuss the amusing oral arguments in the Jack Daniels parody case and unpack the one opinion of the week. Judge Kyle Duncan also joins the show to talk about the recent free-speech debacle at Stanford Law School. He explains what happened, reflects on its implications...
Rehearing: Judge Stephen Vaden
SCOTUS 101 - March 17, 2023 14:43 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this Rehearings episode, we replay our interview with the Judge Stephen Vaden. The interview is especially relevant in light of the recent free-speech controversy at Stanford Law, because Judge Vaden talks about the free-speech crisis in legal academia. Rehearings airs our favorite old interv...
Rehearing: Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod
SCOTUS 101 - March 10, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this Rehearings episode, we replay our interview with the Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod. Rehearings airs our favorite old interviews on weeks when things are otherwise quiet at the Supreme Court. Follow us on Twitter @scotus101 and @tzsmith. And please send questions, comments, or ideas for fu...
Student Loans and Major Questions
SCOTUS 101 - March 03, 2023 02:35 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsOral arguments in the cases challenging President Biden's student loan cancellation plan dominated the news this week while other interesting SCOTUS developments flew under the radar. Zack discusses the opinions you may have missed, while GianCarlo does a deep dive into those oral arguments. Wit...
A Dubious Expediency
SCOTUS 101 - February 23, 2023 23:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back, and this week it heard oral arguments in two high-profile cases against Google and Twitter that will decide the extent of the protection they can claim when their users support terrorism. It also issued opinions in a bankruptcy case, a capital-murder case, and a fair-wage case...
Rehearing: Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk
SCOTUS 101 - February 16, 2023 22:34 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this Rehearings episode, we replay our interview with the Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. Rehearings airs our favorite old interviews on weeks when things are otherwise quiet at the Supreme Court. Follow us on Twitter @scotus101 and @tzsmith. And please send questions, comments, or ideas for future...
Rehearing: Judge Douglas Ginsburg
SCOTUS 101 - February 10, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn the second of our Rehearings series, we replay our interview with the Judge Douglas Ginsburg. Rehearings airs our favorite old interviews on weeks when things are otherwise quiet at the Supreme Court. Follow us on Twitter @scotus101 and @tzsmith. And please send questions, comments, or ideas...
Rehearing: Judge Marty Feldman
SCOTUS 101 - February 03, 2023 15:52 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this first episode of our Rehearings series, we replay our interview with the late Judge Martin Feldman. Rehearings will re-air our favorite old interviews on weeks when we don't have a usual episode because the Supreme Court is not hearing arguments or issuing opinions. Follow us on Twitte...
Originalism 101
SCOTUS 101 - January 27, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsLate last week, the Court issued a report about its investigation into the Dobbs leak. Your hosts discuss the report and share their thoughts about the Marshal's investigation. GianCarlo then gives a preview of some of the Court's new cases and explains what a "DIG" is, and Zack discusses the fi...
"Learned in the Law"
SCOTUS 101 - January 13, 2023 00:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back from its break, adding new cases to its docket, and hearing oral arguments. In this episode, GianCarlo previews the newly granted cases and explains the oral arguments in a rare professional ethics case, and Zack discusses the oral arguments in a case that will decide whether a...
Does A Cat Have a Tail?
SCOTUS 101 - December 09, 2022 02:49 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court heard oral arguments in two of the biggest cases of the term, 303 Creative v. Elenis and Moore v. Harper. Your hosts explain those cases and discuss the Court's decision to take up the case challenging President Biden's student loan cancellation plan. As mentioned in the episode, you ...
Texas Fights the Feds, Again
SCOTUS 101 - December 02, 2022 05:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week your hosts go to lengths to explain why the apparently esoteric cases argued this week are, in fact, much more interesting than they sound. Meanwhile, Texas is back at the Court fighting the feds, something Texas S.G. Judd Stone has a lot of experience doing. Zack discusses that oral a...
Agencies on Trial
SCOTUS 101 - November 11, 2022 15:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court heard arguments in two major cases involving challenges to executive-branch agencies, and another race case involving a federal statute that restricts adoption and foster placement for Native American Children. Your hosts discuss those arguments, and then Zack interviews form...
Race, College, and the Constitution
SCOTUS 101 - November 03, 2022 22:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the use of racial preferences in college admissions at Harvard and The University of North Carolina. Your hosts do a deep dive into those arguments, pulling out the best, worst, and most interesting questions. GianCarlo th...
Special Episode with Justice Alito
SCOTUS 101 - October 28, 2022 15:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was another quiet week at the Court, but Justice Samuel Alito came to Heritage for our annual Joseph Story lecture. He sat down with John Malcolm and shared stories about his career and discussed topical issues like the leak of the draft Dobbs opinion and free speech on college campuses. Fo...
Special Episode: An Interview with V.P. Mike Pence
SCOTUS 101 - October 20, 2022 22:06 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this special episode, former Vice President Mike Pence joins your hosts to share some inside-baseball about the judicial selection and confirmation process. He also shares his thoughts about the role of the Court in our constitutional system, how Justice Thomas came to administer his oath of ...
The Bacon Wars?
SCOTUS 101 - October 14, 2022 13:50 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a quiet week for orders, but a very exciting week for oral arguments. Your hosts discuss the copyright fight between the Andy Warhol Foundation and legendary rock-and-roll photographer Lynn Goldsmith, and the ideologically unpredictable Bacon Case, which might spark economic warfare betwe...
Justice Jackson's First Day
SCOTUS 101 - October 07, 2022 03:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Justices are back in their marble palace, and their newest member has joined the fray of oral argument. Your hosts, Zack and GianCarlo, share the latest SCOTUS news, discuss new cases, and chat about Justice Jackson's oral argument style. Zack interviews Judge Stephen Vaden of the Court of I...
We're Back!
SCOTUS 101 - September 29, 2022 21:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back next week, and the docket is already shaping up to be very exciting. This week we have a special preview of the upcoming term with former Solicitor General Paul Clement and former Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The End of the Term
SCOTUS 101 - July 01, 2022 15:51 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWe've reached the end of the term after a blockbuster month and an incredibly full week of orders and opinions. Your hosts wish farewell to Justice Breyer who is now officially retired and welcome Justice Ketanji Jackson. This week the Court decided all of its remaining cases including West Virg...
Overruling Roe
SCOTUS 101 - June 24, 2022 22:37 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court continued to release opinions at a frenzied pace this week. While GianCarlo enjoys some well-deserved R&R, the Meese Center's Director, John Malcolm, joins Zack to break down everything that's happening at the Court, including the release of an important religious liberty/school choic...
The SCOTUS Numbers Game
SCOTUS 101 - June 16, 2022 20:31 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe floodgates opened this week, and the Court gave us eleven opinions. Given time constraints, your hosts discuss a few of the most interesting ones, including two Indian Law cases and a big Chevron deference case that did not mention Chevron. GianCarlo then interviews District Judge Patrick Wy...
Protecting the Justices
SCOTUS 101 - June 09, 2022 21:16 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week a man angry about the leaked Dobbs opinion showed up to Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home with a gun, a knife, burglary tools, and the intent to kill the Justice. Despite this, to the Justices' credit, they are working just as hard as ever resolving orders and issuing four opinions. You h...
Cruzin' to Victory
SCOTUS 101 - May 19, 2022 20:51 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsDespite some rumors that we might get the Dobbs opinion this week, we did not. We did, however, get opinions in an immigration case and in Senator Ted Cruz's challenge to an election rule that limited a candidate's ability to recover money loaned to his own campaign. Zack and GianCarlo unpack th...
BONUS: Mark Paoletta on The Kevin Roberts Show
SCOTUS 101 - May 15, 2022 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsToday on "SCOTUS 101," we are featuring the latest episode of "The Kevin Roberts Show" a sister podcast on the Heritage Podcast Network. Subscribe to The Kevin Roberts Show1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kevin-roberts-show/id1609468507 The left is hell-bent on tearing down our inst...
The Dobbs Leak
SCOTUS 101 - May 06, 2022 13:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week saw the biggest leak in Supreme Court history: a leaked opinion. And not just any opinion, but an early draft of a purported majority decision in the Dobbs case, which would, if issued, overrule Roe v. Wade and return abortion policy to the people of each state. Zack and GianCarlo chat...
All Aboard the SCOTUS Express
SCOTUS 101 - April 29, 2022 14:19 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis was the final week of oral arguments of the term and also the final oral arguments for Justice Breyer. Your hosts discuss a kind tribute that the Chief Justice gave to his retiring colleague, new cert grants, and some of this week's high-profile arguments. They also discuss the two decision...
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