08.07.2018 - By Joe Miller and Christian Turner
It's our annual Supreme Court term roundup, with special guest Ian Samuel. We discuss, natch, one case, Carpenter v. United States, which concerns the need for a warrant to get records from cell phone companies concerning the location of your phone. But there's much more, including: hard drive upgrades, the sum total of human writing, audio vs. text for messaging, emojis, AI and grunts, Supreme Court-packing / balancing / restructuring (16:37), what rules of procedure an enlarged Court should set for itself and what rules should be imposed on it (29:00), podcast lengths and listening habits (51:04), Carpenter v. United States(01:02:06), Batman movies, and Hold-Up.
This show’s links:
First Mondays
Ian Samuel’s writing
Ian Samuel, The New Writs of Assistance
Snopes, Did Facebook Shut Down an AI Experiment Because Chatbots Developed Their Own Language? (no, but interesting)
Oral Argument 134: Crossover
Christian Turner, Amendment XXVIII: A First Draft
Ian Ayres and John Witt, Democrats Need a Plan B for the Supreme Court. Here’s One Option.
Oral Argument 37: Hammer Blow (with Michael Dorf); Oral Argument 38: You're Going to Hate this Answer_ (with Steve Vladeck); Christian Turner, Bound by Federal Law (including links to posts by Michael and Steve on the issue of state courts' not being bound by federal circuit courts)
Carpenter v. United States
Radiolab, Eye in the Sky
Ian Samuel, Warrantless Location Tracking
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
Florida v. Jardines
Justice Souter’s discussion of Plessy and the role of history in judging (watch from minute one until about minute fourteen) and his Harvard Commencement speech on Plessy
Hold Up!
Special Guest: Ian Samuel.