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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

The Trump SCOTUS Term

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

Government

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We review some of the big cases that were decided during the SCOTUS term and assess the constitutionality of the federal policing of the Portland protests

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0:00.0

So why do you want to start today?

0:03.0

So why don't we talk a little bit about the Supreme Court term that just ended?

0:08.0

Yeah. They finished really late in July.

0:11.0

They normally finish around the end of June or something like that, but you know it was a weird

0:14.8

Supreme Court term all around. They had remote oral argument. It wasn't by Zoom. It was by telephone.

0:20.8

Today the Supreme Court was in session,

0:24.2

but you could hardly tell by the relative quiet

0:26.4

outside the courthouse.

0:28.6

We'll hear an argument this morning.

0:30.0

Instead, it was the voice of Chief Justice John Roberts that kicked off today's oral arguments over the phone.

0:35.9

Case 1946, the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

0:41.8

We were waiting around for some really big cases so I thought we could talk today a little

0:46.0

bit about a couple of the really big ones that were decided. Yeah great let's go for it.

0:56.4

This is what Trump can teach us about Khan Law, an ongoing monthly series of indefinite length where we take the tweets and legal challenges to the 45th

1:00.7

president of the United States

1:02.8

and use them to examine our Constitution

1:04.9

like we never have before.

1:06.6

Our music is from Doomtree Records.

1:08.2

Our professor and neighbor is Elizabeth Joe.

1:10.8

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

1:17.0

So let's think about it this way. There's a one useful way to think about how powerful the Supreme Court is.

1:23.6

And the court is empowered to decide matters of all federal law.

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