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Live from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., Sarah Isgur and David French review the OT25 term with Akhil Amar, professor of law and political science at Yale University, and David Lat, author of Original Jurisdiction. The four break down the most consequential cases of the past term—from the tariffs case to Humphrey’s Executor, birthright citizenship, and what it all means for President Trump’s relationship with the court.
The Agenda:
–Thank you to the ACLU for sponsoring our SCOTUSblog Summit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center
–Getting deep into trucking Twitter
–How the culture war is shifting toward separation-of-powers fights
–Counting jelly beans and winning heifers
–The demise of Humphrey’s Executor in Slaughter
–Did Trump win or lose this term?
–What even makes a “big” case?
–Previewing OT26
Show notes:
thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/scotus-vibe-check
Live from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., Sarah Isgur and David French review the OT25 term with Akhil Amar, professor of law and political science at Yale University, and David Lat, author of Original Jurisdiction. The four break down the most consequential cases of the past term—from the tariffs case to Humphrey’s Executor, birthright citizenship, and what it all means for President Trump’s relationship with the court.
The Agenda:
–Thank you to the ACLU for sponsoring our SCOTUSblog Summit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center
–Getting deep into trucking Twitter
–How the culture war is shifting toward separation-of-powers fights
–Counting jelly beans and winning heifers
–The demise of Humphrey’s Executor in Slaughter
–Did Trump win or lose this term?
–What even makes a “big” case?
–Previewing OT26
Show notes:
thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/scotus-vibe-check
