Latest Supreme court justice Podcast Episodes
Back on the Island
Divided Argument - July 04, 2024 06:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWill makes Dan interrupt his vacation to talk about the case you've all been clamoring for: Trump v. United States.
Hope Springs Eternal
Divided Argument - June 30, 2024 17:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe break down SEC v. Jarkesy and City of Grants Pass v. Johnson.
Felony-Adjacent
Divided Argument - June 26, 2024 02:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe cut to the chase with extended discussions of two of last week's cases: United States v. Rahimi, which upheld a federal gun law against Second Amendment challenge and produced six concurring and dissenting opinions; and Erlinger v. United States, a case about the jury's role in sentencing tha...
Small Victories
Divided Argument - June 20, 2024 03:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter another discussion of Supreme Court ethics and legitimacy (hopefully our last for a long time), we discuss three of last week's decisions. We cover issues of statutory interpretation in Garland v. Cargill (the bump stock case), of standing in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (the m...
Vexillology
Divided Argument - June 02, 2024 03:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsUnpredictably, we take a new approach and record immediately after the Court drops new opinions. We dig into Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (voting rights) and NRA v. Vullo (free speech). Before that, we engage with listener feedback and talk about the latest developme...
p(doom)
Divided Argument - May 24, 2024 17:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsContinuing our pattern of staying a week behind the Court's latest output, we discuss last week's opinions: CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association (the Appropriations Clause), Harrow v. Department of Defense (jurisdiction and equitable tolling); and Smith v. Spizzirri (arbitration), wh...
Poison Pill in Your Pocket
Divided Argument - May 16, 2024 19:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe follow up on feedback, puzzle over the Court's apparent continued lack of interest in Fourth Amendment cases, and then discuss two of the latest opinions—Culley v. Marshall (civil forfeiture) and Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy (copyright). And yes, we know Dan's audio sounds terrible d...
Radical Agreement
Divided Argument - April 26, 2024 03:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter taking some listener questions, we analyze the lengthy shadow docket opinions in Labrador v. Poe, dealing with universal relief, emergency applications, and more. We then tackle two recent merits opinions: Devillier v. Texas (takings) and Muldrow v. St. Louis (Title VII).
Bootlegging-Adjacent
Divided Argument - April 16, 2024 16:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter discussing a few pending issues at the Court, we look back to analyze several decisions from last month-- FBI v. Fikre, a mootness case with national security implications, and the shadow docket dispute in one of many cases named United States v. Texas (the SB4 case)-- and then turn to las...
Dinkus
Divided Argument - March 20, 2024 01:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter grappling with listener feedback ranging from the acoustic to the typographical, we catch up on last month's decisions in Great Lakes v. Raiders Retreat Realty (admiralty) and McElrath v. Georgia (double jeopardy). We then turn to last week's decisions about public officials on social medi...
Political Hacks Pretending to be Lawyers
Divided Argument - March 05, 2024 16:53 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe (of course) break down the Court's opinions in Trump v. Anderson, the Section Three case from Colorado. We also discuss the Court's cert. grant on Trump's immunity from criminal prosecution, and several other opinions on the orders list, dealing with rent control, magnet school admissions, an...
Votin' for Lincoln
Divided Argument - February 13, 2024 13:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter quick review of an order about admissions at West Point and two new unanimous opinions, we spend almost all of the episode breaking down last week's oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson. What excuse will the Supreme Court use to keep Colorado from disqualifying Trump from the ballot?
Into the Brick Wall
Divided Argument - January 11, 2024 14:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter catching up on a few odds and ends, we decide to give the people what they want and discuss Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment and whether the Supreme Court could possibly declare Donald Trump ineligible for the Presidency. You won't want to miss it.
Muppetproof
Divided Argument - December 10, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe discuss the passing of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, then turn to two interesting opinions on the shadow docket (in Griffin v. HM Florida and DuPont v. Abbott), and finally break down the Court's first merits opinion of the term in Acheson Hotels v. Laufer, at the intersection of standing and ...
Easy Win
Divided Argument - November 16, 2023 16:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe discuss the Court's new Code of Conduct, catch up on shadow docket happenings, and debate what historians can teach originalists. We then recap the argument United States v. Rahimi, (the Term's big Second Amendment case). Finally, we stay on brand by circling back to Pulsifer v. United States...
Good Dig
Divided Argument - October 27, 2023 17:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsThe October Term is now underway, and that means it's time for Season 4 of the show. We catch up on the inevitable shadow docket happenings before diving into a discussion of two cases that were argued earlier in the month. First, we dig into Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, and debate which juris...
Screaming Clown
Divided Argument - September 18, 2023 16:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsThe Court hasn't done too much while the summer recess drags on, but we're back for what might be our last episode of Season 3 before Season 4 kicks off with the new Term. We manage to piece together an episode with some items from the mailbag, some SG gossip, and a few shadow docket happenings.
Lib Fanfiction
Divided Argument - September 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsThe Justices have beenoff on their European vacations for a couple of months but we're still cranking out episodes breaking down last Term. We start off by discussion Will and Michael Stokes Paulsen's SSRN-breaking article arguing that Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency under Section...
Map Guy
Divided Argument - August 09, 2023 13:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe recap some shadow docket happenings and catch up on the latest SCOTUS ethics news before continuing our march through June opinions we missed. This time, we dive back into Indian law in Arizona v. Navajo Nation and try to make sense of private causes of action and the so-called Spending Claus...
Triple Threat
Divided Argument - July 31, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWhat could be more unscheduled and unpredictable than our fourth episode in little more than a week? We briefly discuss the latest developments in the Mountain Valley Pipeline shadow docket dispute, and then revisit ethics controversies. Then, we continue marching through the June cases we misse...
Dishonorable Tradition
Divided Argument - July 27, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe defy all predictions by releasing a third episode in a week. This time, we talk about the intersection of public accommodations law and the First Amendment in 303 Creative and the Confrontation Clause in Samia v. United States.
Peak SG
Divided Argument - July 24, 2023 16:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsIn the spirit of keeping things unpredictable, we're back with a new episode barely days after the last one. This time, we take a deep dive into two jurisdiction-y cases in the Divided Argument wheelhouse: Jones v. Hendrix and Moore v. Harper.
My Despised World
Divided Argument - July 21, 2023 20:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter some inevitable self-flagellation for our lengthy hiatus, we catch up on some recent news and debate SCOTUS ethics. We then talk about implications of the Harvard/UNC affirmative action case, revisit Mallory v. Norfolk Southern, and break down the latest case captioned "United States v. Te...
Lady Justice Isn’t Blind
Dissed - July 19, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsLady Justice is often depicted wearing a blindfold, signifying that judges are neutral arbiters of the law. Unfortunately, thanks for a judicial doctrine known as Chevron deference, the Supreme Court has required judges to peek from behind that metaphorical blindfold and put a thumb on the scale...
Demokratia
Divided Argument - June 28, 2023 21:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe record our first inter-continental episode, as Will reports in from a visit to Tel Aviv. We then dive in to two of this month's opinions: Haaland v. Brackeen, which rejects a series of challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and United States v. Hansen, which upholds a federal immigration...
Justified True Belief
Divided Argument - June 05, 2023 20:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe discuss a recent effort to identify the least interesting SCOTUS case, and then discuss Tyler v. Hennepin County, United States ex rel. Schutte v. Supervalu Inc., and Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Teamsters.
Pale Fire
Divided Argument - May 24, 2023 20:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe debate Justice Gorsuch's unusual "statement" in Arizona v. Mayorkas. Then, we don't let our complete lack of knowledge of intellectual property law stop us in trying to make sense of Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, the big copyright throw-down between Justices Sotom...
Break the Fourth Wall
Divided Argument - May 18, 2023 22:19 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsAfter catching up on news and bemoaning some listener feedback, we look at some opinions that the Court dropped last week. We take a deep dive into National Pork Producers Council v. Ross and briefly discuss the two fraud cases, Percoco and Ciminelli.
Provocative Subtitle
Divided Argument - May 16, 2023 12:02 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe talk (and argue) with special guest Steve Vladeck about his new book, The Shadow Docket, just published by Basic Books. Steve explains why it is important to educate the public about the Court's use of unsigned and sometimes unexplained orders, and how it is changing. Will and Dan press him o...
Creator of the Stars of Night
Divided Argument - May 06, 2023 19:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 554 ratingsWe cover many developments -- Justice Alito's unusual interview in the Wall Street Journal, the release of Justice Stevens' papers, more news on Supreme Court ethics, as well as a new cert. grant on the Chevron doctrine, the mifepristone shadow-docket ruling, and still more jurisdictional news i...
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