One, two, three, one, do it again.

This is what tromb can teach us about con law.

We're going monthly series of indefinite length where we take the tweets and legal challenges to the 45th president of the United States and use them to examine our constitution like we never have before.

Our music is from DOOMTree Records, our professor and neighbor is Elizabeth Jo.

And I'm your fellow remote learning student and host Roman Mars.

How are you doing?

I'm good. Still in a state of more or less lockdown, although depending on where you are in the United States, you may be more or less under lockdown.

But definitely life is still different.

Everyone is still adjusting, I think, to this new lifestyle.

And so, I guess our purview is how places like the Supreme Court are adjusting to this lifestyle in the pandemic.

So what is happening right now in terms of the Supreme Court in the pandemic?

Yeah, so usually the Supreme Court for its term holds live oral arguments, that's what we call them.

The Supreme Court hears arguments from both sides of a case, the lawyers on both sides.

They see them live in person. They come to the Supreme Court in Washington and the justice is going to chance to raise questions.

And here are the legal arguments that the parties are going to present.

Now, if you're not familiar with the Supreme Court of the United States, most of the justices are on the old side.

And they are really in the high risk group for COVID.

So exactly the group of people you don't want mingling with anybody else or you and each other.

So they initially postponed some of their cases that have been scheduled and rescheduled them.

Everyone was kind of eager to find out what was going to happen.

And the court announced that they would have the arguments, but they went straight into the future to the 1980s

and decided they would have a telephonic conferences.

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