Oral Argument

Episode 184: Bleep that Bleep

11.19.2018 - By Joe Miller and Christian TurnerPlay

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Here's your Thanksgiving Holiday episode, perfect for travel and your other holiday needs. If you listen only for law-related content, you'll probably want to skip to 01:17:16, where we somewhat casually discuss the controversy over whether the supposed Acting Attorney General was properly appointed. But we discuss many mailbag-related topics: the California fires and climate change (00:25), politeness and over-decorousness (8:53), how we imagine the mailbag and the miracles of pre-computer-age physical organization (11:06), how to find a good coffeeshop and the origins of "heyday" (22:15), our supposed bad taste in movies and our regard for certain consumer electronics (38:47), caselaw access and textbooks (55:44), seekers (59:44), markdown and word processing and the inevitable demise of Oral Argument (01:03:19), a discussion of the pretending Acting Attorney General and meltdowns and trainwrecks (01:17:16), podcast recommendations (01:33:30).

Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome

About Michael Mann

About The Story of Star Wars LP

Travis Bostick, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mother!, and Sound Over Score

Caselaw Access Project; H2O

About Markdown

Oral Argument 11: Big Red Diesel, on Markdown and word processors

Ulysses and Byword

Bat Kid is cancer free

Jed Shugerman, Whitaker’s Appointment as Acting Attorney General Is Statutorily Illegal; Stephen Vladeck, Whitaker May Be a Bad Choice, but He’s a Legal One; Walter Dellinger and Marty Lederman, Initial Reactions to OLC’s Opinion on the Whitaker Designation as “Acting” Attorney General

Podcasts: Bag Man, Slow Burn, Serial (and Oral Argument 44: Serial), Feeding Us, Ipse Dixit

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