Checks and Balances (with Curt Bradley)

09/17/21 • 49 min

In our final episode of Season 1, Will is joined by the newest UChicago Law professor, Curt Bradley, to discuss INS v. Chadha a transformative case that invalidated the "legislative" veto almost forty years ago. They discuss the formal and functional separation of powers, and the surprising possibility that it wasn't really so transformative after all. This episode also features a look at the scholarship of then-Senator Joseph Biden. Happy Constitution Day!

Case audio is from Oyez.org

Case audio is from Oyez.org

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Fractured Opinions (with Nina Varsava)

Will is joined by University of Wisconsin law professor Nina Varsava, where they discuss how to make sense of fractured Supreme Court opinions in light of Marks v. United States. They also discuss the applications of Marks's "narrowest grounds" test in the recent jury-trial decision of Ramos v. Louisiana, with plenty of Dworkin along the way. Later in the episode they dig into Nina's infamous paper on judicial rhetoric.

Case audio from Oyez.org

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Critical Race Theory is a Verb

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