What SCOTUS Wrote Us

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Listen to the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC ., decided April 12, 2024.   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts.

The unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court in Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fikre , decided March 19, 2024.   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts.

The unanimous opinion of the Court in DeVillier v. Texas , decided April 16, 2024. Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts.

I have something a little different for you today: since I often read documents from the Trump cases on the show, I thought my super nerds might be interested in hearing the audio from a guest lecture I gave last week summarizing the four Trump criminal cases at a Palomar College event held every semester called the Political Economy Days Lecture Series.  If you would like to watch a video version...

The unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court in MacQuarie Infrastructure Corporation, et al. v. Moab Partners, L.P., et al. , decided April 12, 2024. The Court is asked whether the Second Circuit erred in holding-in conflict with the Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits- that a failure to make a disclosure required under Item 303 can support a private claim under Section l0(b), even in the absence of...

Part 2 of 2 of the opinion of the Supreme Court in Pulsifer v. United States, decided March 15, 2024. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-340_p86a.pdf A criminal defendant facing a mandatory minimum sentence is eligible for safety-valve relief under 18 U. S. C. §3553(f)(1) only if the defendant satisfies each of the provision’s three conditions. Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever...

Part 1 of 2 of the opinion of the Supreme Court in Pulsifer v. United States , decided March 15, 2024. A criminal defendant facing a mandatory minimum sentence is eligible for safety-valve relief under 18 U. S. C. §3553(f)(1) only if the defendant satisfies each of the provision’s three conditions. Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts. WhatSCOTUSWroteUs.com

Today I'll be reading Special Counsel Jack Smith's Brief for the United States in Donald Trump v. United States (filed April 8, 2024) - the Supreme Court case in which Donald Trump asserts that presidents have absolute criminal immunity. The brief is 49 pages long, so I will be recording it in several segments. If you are interested in listening to the oral arguments in this case, they are schedul...

Today I'll be reading Special Counsel Jack Smith's Brief for the United States in Donald Trump v. United States (filed April 8, 2024) - the Supreme Court case in which Donald Trump asserts that presidents have absolute criminal immunity.  If you are interested in listening to the oral arguments in this case, they are scheduled to take place later this month on April 25th at 10 am eastern time. You...

Today I'll be reading Special Counsel Jack Smith's Brief for the United States in Donald Trump v. United States (filed April 8, 2024) - the Supreme Court case in which Donald Trump asserts that presidents have absolute criminal immunity. The brief is 49 pages long, so I will be recording it in several segments. If you are interested in listening to the oral arguments in this case, they are schedul...

Listen to Special Counsel Jack Smith's April 2, 2024 filing responding to Judge Cannon's order requiring preliminary proposed jury instructions and verdict forms on counts 1-32. If you need a quick explainer on the Presidential Records Act, check out mine .   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts. WhatSCOTUSWroteUs.com

Listen to Special Counsel Jack Smith's April 2, 2024 filing responding to Judge Cannon's order requiring preliminary proposed jury instructions and verdict forms on counts 1-32. If you need a quick explainer on the Presidential Records Act, check out mine .   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts. WhatSCOTUSWroteUs.com

When does a public official’s social media activity constitute state action subject to the First Amendment? Listen to the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court in Lindke v. Freed (March 15, 2024) and find out.   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  wherever you get podcasts. WhatSCOTUSWroteUs.com

Today I'll be reading both concurring opinions (which read like dissents) in Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson et al. , decided March 4, 2024.  

Today I'll be reading the per curiam opinion of the Court in Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson et al. , decided March 4, 2024.  

Alito, joined by Thomas, dissenting from denial of certiorari in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board , decided Feb 20, 2024.  

An update with critical commentary regarding today's order granting certiorari in Trump v. United States (from a very unhappy host).

Today I'll be reading the unanimous opinion of the Court in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC , decided Feb 21, 2024.  

Justice Jackson delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in McElrath v. Georgia (Feb 21, 2024)  

"Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be 'labeled as bigots and treated as such' by the government," wrote Justice Alito, in his statement explaining why he concurred in the denial of certiorari in Missouri Dept. of Corrections v. Finney (February 20, 2024).  

Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari in Smith v. Hamm (January 25, 2024).   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  anywhere you get your podcasts

The brand-new, unanimous opinion of the Court in Dept. of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz , decided February 8, 2024.   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  anywhere you get your podcasts

Today I'll be reading the brand-new, unanimous opinion of the Court in Murray v. USB Securities (Feb 8, 2024) regarding the whistleblower provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  anywhere you get your podcasts

Final episode for this opinion.   Listen to  What SCOTUS Wrote Us  anywhere you get your podcasts.