About this podcast
An unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. Hosted by Will Baude and Dan Epps. In partnership with SCOTUSblog.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 140 episodes
- You Should See the Other Guy · 1 h 9 min · Season 7 Episode 1Season 7 opens with a Court busy not deciding: an Alito recusal, a quorum lost to four book deals, and a stern Purcell per curiam for Missouri.
- Shoe of Damocles · 1 h 19 min · Season 6 Episode 30Two August per curiams find no one with standing to challenge the mail-ballot order or the White House ballroom—and a third drops while we're recording.
- A Thriving Atrocities Practice · 1 h 15 min · Season 6 Episode 29Cisco Systems v. Doe shuts the Alien Tort Statute door Sosa left open — pirates, ambassadors, and one Phoenix bar band excepted.
- Very Civilized Orangutans · 1 h 9 min · Season 6 Episode 28Hunter v. United States makes appeal waivers yield to "miscarriages of justice" — and nobody, including the Court, can quite say why.
- Ice by Magneto · 1 h 4 min · Season 6 Episode 27We finally tackle the trans-sports cases and walk through the Court’s Equal Protection and Title IX analysis.
- The Based Direction · 55 min · Season 6 Episode 26Rooker-Feldman, pronounced dead two decades ago, turns out to be alive — and the Court's formalists split right down the middle.
- Norway-Sweden Worshippers · 1 h 29 min · Season 6 Episode 25We cover two immigration wins in one day: the Court clears the way to end TPS for Haiti and Syria, then decides asylum turns on whether you "arrive in" the country — or merely at…
- Smart Microwave · 1 h 25 min · Season 6 Episode 24We break down Chatrie v. United States, the Court's ruling that a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search — what it does to the third-party doctrine and the mosaic theory…
- Weird Islands · 1 h 14 min · Season 6 Episode 23The birthright-citizenship order goes down — but the vote is closer than anyone bet, and the four dissenters can't agree on why.
- Always Already · 1 h 12 min · Season 6 Episode 22Humphrey's Executor falls and independent agencies lose for-cause protection — but the Fed, alone, somehow survives.
- Mechanical / Animal · 56 min · Season 6 Episode 21We're in triage mode as the Court clears its end-of-term backlog. We run through the week's opinion dump before focusing on two cases that look unrelated but turn on the same…
- Alcoholic Originalism · 1 h 2 min · Season 6 Episode 20The big opinions are starting to drop, and we're doing our best to keep pace. We first discuss Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections, which concerns religious liberty…
- Watch Snobs · 1 h 16 min · Season 6 Episode 19We open with the usual grab bag—the "foot fault" pun buried in a Justice Thomas opinion, reading Justice Alito's clerk-hiring tea leaves, and a detour into the metaphysics of…
- Impregnable Citadel of Technicality · 1 h 12 min · Season 6 Episode 18After puzzling over an interesting follow-up question about Pitchford v. Cain, we unpack a summary vacatur in Whitton v. Dixon. We then spend a while breaking down the latest…
- Smooth Stone in the River · 1 h 10 min · Season 6 Episode 17The Court has been busy, and we somehow manage to cover a number of developments with unpredictable efficiency. We talk about the Court's latest summary reversal on the "party…
- Ninja Court Packing · 1 h 8 min · Season 6 Episode 16Live from the American Law Institute with Pam Karlan, we untangle a chaotic stretch of the interim docket—the Alabama redistricting GVR, Virginia's denied stay, and the…
- Majordoma · 1 h 1 min · Season 6 Episode 15We dissect the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision and its sweeping narrowing of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, exploring how it could reshape redistricting…
- Even Eve-ier · 1 h 0 min · Season 6 Episode 14We cover leaked SCOTUS memos, shadow docket reversals, Sotomayor's Kavanaugh apology, and a contractor preemption case narrowing an infamous Scalia opinion.
- Backup backup backup backup argument · 1 h 17 min · Season 6 Episode 13We recap and reflect on the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara (the birthright citizenship case) and then analyze the Court's recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar, about the…
- Jezebel Shouting · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 12We're live at WashU Law's Admitted Students Day! After catching up on some shadow docket activity, we dig into Olivier v. City of Brandon, the Court's unanimous March 2026…
