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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

The Socially Distanced SCOTUS

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

Government

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court may not be able to meet in person, but they are still doing business over conference call. This month, they've considered three cases about Donald Trump's finances, and whether they should be released to Congressional committees and prosecutors in New York. What does history tell us about these cases which could have major consequences for executive power?

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0:00.0

One, two, three.

0:02.0

One, do it again?

0:05.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh. This is what Trump can teach us about Khan Law, an ongoing monthly series of indefinite

0:29.2

length where we take the tweets and legal challenges to the 45th President to the United States and use

0:35.0

them to examine our Constitution like we never have before.

0:38.8

Our music is from Doomtree Records, our professor and Neighbor is Elizabeth Joe.

0:43.4

And I'm your fellow remote'm still in a state of more or less lockdown,

1:00.7

although depending on where you are in the United States, you may be more or less

1:05.2

under lockdown. But definitely life is still different. Everyone is still adjusting, I think, to this new lifestyle.

1:12.3

And so I guess our purview is how

1:16.8

places like the Supreme Court are adjusting to this lifestyle in the pandemic so what is

1:21.6

happening right now in terms of the Supreme Court in the pandemic?

1:24.0

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

1:32.0

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

1:37.5

They see them live in person. They come to the Supreme Court in Washington and the justices get a chance to raise questions and here the legal

1:45.9

arguments that the parties are going to present. Now if you're not familiar with

1:50.3

the Supreme Court of the United States most of the justices are on the old side and they

1:56.4

are really in the high-risk group for COVID.

2:00.7

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

2:05.0

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

2:11.0

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 telephonic conferences,

2:26.7

teleconfine, telephone conferences, right?

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