Josh Blackman

Yeah.

He quotes for this something called the audition trap, which is a term coined by Professor Blackman in a, in a blog post a few years ago.

Uh, now Jud- uh, uh, Josh Blackman.

Now, the, uh, Judge Ho doesn't get into this, but Josh Blackman in that blog post was talking about James Ho-

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... uh, specifically.

Yeah, I mean, well, this was kind of part of the auditioning article.

Yeah.

Like your, yours is obviously based on extant code, by which I mean legal code.

Um, what's to stop like, you know, Josh Blackman from creating an original version, originalist version of this, where-

Um, it-

... you know, we only look at things from Scottish Enlightenment through John Calhoun, and all of a sudden, Thomas and Alito are basing decisions upon chatbots with, that have not moved on since 1860.

The court hearing an appeal from energy companies who are trying to block lawsuits against trying to hold them liable for climate change-related damages.

Joining us to talk about the big cases that the court is taking on is Josh Blackman, professor and centennial chair of constitutional law at South Texas College of Law in Houston.

Also with us, Vikram Amar, distinguished professor of law at UC Davis.

Very good to have you both with us.

But in the last 15 years or so, the court has really changed its attitude about that.

And so there's a real question about whether the church will have an entitlement to get this public funding, even though it does not want to comply with the non-discrimination requirements that are otherwise imposed on other schools.

On this first day of the 2026-27 term of the U.S. Supreme Court, we're talking with legal scholars Vikram Amar, Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis and Professor and Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Josh Blackman.

Josh, let's talk about a Second Amendment case, this one, Viramontes v. Cook County, involving semi-automatic rifles.