No Rahimi decision yet … but Sarah and David have the next best thing: math! The two dive into Sarah’s recent POLITICO piece in which she and Dean Jens used data to analyze the Supreme Court.
The Agenda:
—The three-body problem
—Was Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization radical?
—Moneyballing the court
—“Right to counsel” at the 9th Circuit
—Racial discrimination in contracting
—Test cases are test cases
—Judge Newsom’s “unusual” concurrence
—Judge Easterbrook on fonts
—The health of the Constitution
Show Notes:
—Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum
—Connelly v. United States
—Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe
—National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo
—Allen v. Milligan
—New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen
—Creative LLC v. Elenis
—Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
—Chief Justice John Roberts’ thoughts on AI
—Pacific Legal Foundation
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