Very Civilized Orangutans
Divided ArgumentAugust 12, 2026x
28
01:09:21158.75 MB

Very Civilized Orangutans

Hunter v. United States makes appeal waivers yield to "miscarriages of justice" — and nobody, including the Court, can quite say why.

Ice by Magneto
Divided ArgumentAugust 03, 2026x
27
01:04:01146.53 MB

Ice by Magneto

We finally tackle the trans-sports cases and walk through the Court’s Equal Protection and Title IX analysis.

The Based Direction
Divided ArgumentJuly 27, 2026x
26
00:54:37125.01 MB

The Based Direction

Rooker-Feldman, pronounced dead two decades ago, turns out to be alive — and the Court's formalists split right down the middle.

Norway-Sweden Worshippers
Divided ArgumentJuly 13, 2026x
25
01:29:52205.68 MB

Norway-Sweden Worshippers

We cover two immigration wins in one day: the Court clears the way to end TPS for Haiti and Syria, then decides asylum turns on whether you "arrive in" the country — or merely at its border.

Smart Microwave
Divided ArgumentJuly 06, 2026x
24
01:25:13195.05 MB

Smart Microwave

We break down Chatrie v. United States, the Court's ruling that a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search — what it does to the third-party doctrine and the mosaic theory, and where the separate opinions leave the law.

Weird Islands
Divided ArgumentJuly 02, 2026x
23
01:14:42170.99 MB

Weird Islands

The birthright-citizenship order goes down — but the vote is closer than anyone bet, and the four dissenters can't agree on why.

Always Already
Divided ArgumentJuly 01, 2026x
22
01:12:37166.19 MB

Always Already

Humphrey's Executor falls and independent agencies lose for-cause protection — but the Fed, alone, somehow survives.

Mechanical / Animal
Divided ArgumentJune 28, 2026x
21
00:56:10128.57 MB

Mechanical / Animal

We're in triage mode as the Court clears its end-of-term backlog. We run through the week's opinion dump before focusing on two cases that look unrelated but turn on the same question: when may a state rewrite background property law to limit a constitutional right? In Wolford v. Lopez , the Court s...

Alcoholic Originalism
Divided ArgumentJune 26, 2026x
20
01:02:47143.7 MB

Alcoholic Originalism

The big opinions are starting to drop, and we're doing our best to keep pace. We first discuss Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections , which concerns religious liberty, the scope of Congress's power to create remedies against individuals under the Spending Clause, and whether there's any red...