Latest Gorsuch Podcast Episodes
How Fares Religious Liberty?
SCOTUS 101 - April 21, 2022 23:56 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWe are entering the final stretch of the term, and from here on out, opinions are likely to come fast. This week sets the pace with six opinions on free speech, tax, habeas corpus, and other issues. Your hosts explain them all and give a preview of next week's high profile oral arguments. Zack t...
The Bacon Case
SCOTUS 101 - April 01, 2022 00:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWhile Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation process wends through the Senate, the Court is keeping up a fast pace of orders, arguments, and opinions. Your hosts discuss those, including one particularly exciting new case that GianCarlo has dubbed "The Bacon Case." Your hosts then jointly in...
The Jackson Three
SCOTUS 101 - March 25, 2022 02:19 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson filled the airwaves this week, but there were plenty of other Supreme Court goings on. Zack and GianCarlo give an overview of the hearings and then discuss this week's opinions. The Court decided cases involving racial gerrymandering, fre...
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
SCOTUS 101 - March 17, 2022 21:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn this special episode, your hosts moderate a three-way discussion all about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination. But first, we have some news about the lawsuit challenging the Texas heartbeat law and one opinion in a criminal-law case that sounds more like a law school exam than a real fa...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Judge
SCOTUS 101 - March 05, 2022 02:53 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe show and the Court are back from their mid-winter hiatus, and we have a lot to catch up on! There is, of course, Justice Breyer's retirement and President Biden's nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace him, in addition to all of the usual goings-on of our favorite branch of gov...
Supreme Gossip
SCOTUS 101 - January 21, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis episode has a little bit of everything: orders, arguments, opinions, and SCOTUS gossip. Zack and GianCarlo discuss this week's noteworthy orders, including the Court's decision not to block the release of certain documents over which former president Trump claimed executive privilege. They ...
The Vaccine Mandate Cases
SCOTUS 101 - January 14, 2022 16:43 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back from its Winter recess, and so are your hosts. The Court heard arguments in six cases including the challenges to the OSHA and HHS vaccination mandates, and it issued opinions in those cases less than a week later. GianCarlo and Zack explain those opinions and give you the hi...
A Surprise Episode!
SCOTUS 101 - December 17, 2021 17:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsLast week your hosts said that you wouldn't hear from them until the new year, but the Supreme Court had different plans. The Justices handed down their decision in the Texas Heartbeat Bill case, declined to take up a Free Exercise challenge to New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and granted se...
"Vincere Aut Mori"
SCOTUS 101 - December 10, 2021 14:39 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIn the last week before the Court's Christmas break, it heard oral arguments in several interesting cases concerning immigration courts, the fiduciary duties owed by retirement plans administrators, habeas corpus proceedings, and the big school choice case, Carson v. Makin. Your hosts discuss al...
Will SCOTUS Overrule Roe v. Wade?
SCOTUS 101 - December 03, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsAbortion is on the docket this week as the Court hears oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which asks the Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Dobbs filled this week's headlines, but the Court heard several other important cases too. Your hos...
Singing at SCOTUS
SCOTUS 101 - November 12, 2021 00:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week at oral arguments, the Court heard cases about the scope of the state secrets privilege, whether a death-row inmate may have his spiritual advisor present at his execution, and the extent to which local governments can regulate billboards. Your hosts explain those cases, and then GianC...
Abortion, Guns, and Originalism
SCOTUS 101 - November 05, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a big week for oral arguments with two about the Texas' abortion law, SB 8, and another about New York's firearm restrictions. GianCarlo explains the issues in the SB 8 cases and answers the pressing question of what, if anything, do they have to do with Dobbs. Zack unpacks the oral argu...
Three Cheers for Thirty Years
SCOTUS 101 - October 29, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThere 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 hos...
COVID & The Constitution
SCOTUS 101 - October 15, 2021 03:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsTwo weeks into the term, the full Court is back on the bench and hearing oral arguments in their storied courtroom. Among the arguments this week was the death-penalty appeal of the Boston Marathon bomber. Your hosts discuss how in-person oral arguments are going, and some of the newly granted c...
Previewing the New Term
SCOTUS 101 - October 01, 2021 17:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsA new SCOTUS term is right around the corner! Your hosts, GianCarlo and Zack, are primed and ready to follow along with you this year. But before it begins, they've got a preview of this term's biggest cases delivered by two legendary Supreme Court advocates: former Solicitors General Paul Clem...
That's a Wrap
SCOTUS 101 - July 02, 2021 14:53 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsAfter an epic sprint to the finish, the Court has wrapped up the term. The justices handed down two of the term's biggest cases this week--the Arizona election-law case and the First Amendment challenge to California's nonprofit donor disclosure rules. Your hosts unpack those and the other three...
It's Raining Opinions
SCOTUS 101 - June 25, 2021 21:40 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is making it rain opinions on us---ten in one week! We got some of the big ones too including the NCAA antitrust case, the "Cussing Cheerleader" case, and a significant property rights case. Your hosts discuss those cases and all the rest, which involve warrantless entry into the home,...
Obamacare Revisted. Again.
SCOTUS 101 - June 17, 2021 23:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe ball has finally dropped! This week we got two of the biggest cases of the term: California v. Texas, the latest challenge to Obamacare, and Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which concerns Catholic foster care services. Your hosts discuss those cases and the many others released this week. Bu...
How to Become an Appellate Advocate
SCOTUS 101 - June 04, 2021 15:14 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Supreme Court keeps up the pace with two opinion days a week. Your hosts discuss the three opinions this week, which involve the scope of Indian police jurisdiction, an immigration issue, and a very unique statutory interpretation case that answers the question how do you become a cyber crim...
Food Court
SCOTUS 101 - May 28, 2021 02:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court had a calm and peaceful week taking no new cases and issuing three unanimous opinions in fairly technical cases. Your hosts explain all of those opinions, and then Zack has a fascinating discussion with Judge Douglas Ginsburg about his career, clerking for Justice Thurgood Marshall, a...
Tales from the D.C. Circuit
SCOTUS 101 - May 21, 2021 15:50 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsWith oral arguments over and the term on the home stretch, the Court is issuing opinions at high speed. But before they issued this week's opinions, the Justices threw a curve-ball at court watchers by taking Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a major abortion case that could see the court overtur...
Dueling Textualists, Part II
SCOTUS 101 - May 01, 2021 19:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt's full steam ahead as the Court finishes up its second-to-last week of oral arguments for the term. Among the six cases argued this week, were two blockbuster First Amendment cases, one that may decide the meaning of "freedom of association," and another that may decide whether schools can pu...
You're in, Luck!
SCOTUS 101 - April 23, 2021 04:21 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a very busy week at the Court with six oral arguments, three opinions, and a couple of noteworthy orders. GianCarlo discusses the Court's order striking down a California COVID-19 restriction that discriminated against religious practice and a patent case with facts fit for an episode of ...
Guns, Tech, and Free Speech
SCOTUS 101 - April 09, 2021 02:36 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court issued a high-profile and very technical opinion in the copyright dispute between Google and Oracle. Your hosts break down the complicated issues in that case and cover other interesting orders from this week including an opinion by Justice Thomas about free speech and Big Te...
March Madness at the Court
SCOTUS 101 - April 02, 2021 02:48 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsIt was a busy week for the court with a number of high-profile orders, three oral arguments, and three unanimous opinions. In orders this week, the Justices announced that they will take up an abortion case but only to resolve a procedural issue, and they also delivered a very predictable rebuke...
Cases for the Casebooks
SCOTUS 101 - March 26, 2021 03:12 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court takes us back to our first year of law school with cases destined for the casebooks. Oral arguments this week involved a takings case that touches on first-year property and the "bundle of rights," a Fourth Amendment case involving the community caretaking exception to the wa...
Looking Back at Bostock
SCOTUS 101 - March 12, 2021 02:27 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week, news that all of the Justices have received COVID-19 vaccines sparked a debate among advocates and law professors about remote vs in-person arguments. Zack fairly discusses both sides, while GianCarlo stakes out an aggressive position early on. GianCarlo also unpacks the one opinion ...
Justice Barrett Makes Her Majority Debut
SCOTUS 101 - March 05, 2021 06:47 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThis week the Court heard oral arguments in a voting rights case where Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich was both the petitioner and advocate. Zack unpacks that oral argument, and GianCarlo discusses the oral arguments in two other cases that involve challenges to patent and Social Security...
Back to Business
SCOTUS 101 - February 26, 2021 04:59 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsThe Court is back from its working recess and so are Zack and GianCarlo. Zack kicks off the show discussing the Court's denial of two 2020 election lawsuits out of Pennsylvania. GianCarlo and Zack then discuss the three oral arguments of the week, and GianCarlo unpacks this week's one opinion, w...
A Starr Joins the Show
SCOTUS 101 - February 05, 2021 01:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratingsFor the first time in years, the Supreme Court issued surprise opinions during its February working recess. It issued an opinion in the Nazi art case and another in a case about railroads and retirement plans. Zack and GianCarlo discuss those as well as the newest case on the court's docket, whi...
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