Will Bode

Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Kavanaugh would grant the application.

Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Kavanaugh would grant the application.

No, I think the willingness to dissent, well, I think the willingness to dissent already sends the message you might want to send as one of the dissenters. And, well, maybe that's just my, I'm not sure what the dissent would say. Well, I mean, they could explain why they would grant the application, right?

No, I think the willingness to dissent, well, I think the willingness to dissent already sends the message you might want to send as one of the dissenters. And, well, maybe that's just my, I'm not sure what the dissent would say. Well, I mean, they could explain why they would grant the application, right?

Well, the good version is that I think the majority issued exactly the kind of explanation I would like to see more of in the shadow docket, where it's short, specific enough to give you a sense. But they say, look, there could be more. I think that's about what they could responsibly say in this time frame.

Well, the good version is that I think the majority issued exactly the kind of explanation I would like to see more of in the shadow docket, where it's short, specific enough to give you a sense. But they say, look, there could be more. I think that's about what they could responsibly say in this time frame.

Those are two points that are helpful, and they may not agree with themselves exactly how much weight they bear. But you can certainly imagine, and people talked about this, if the judge had said, I'm going to sentence Trump to 10 days in jail, he's going to go straight released from jail at 1159 on Inauguration Day.

Those are two points that are helpful, and they may not agree with themselves exactly how much weight they bear. But you can certainly imagine, and people talked about this, if the judge had said, I'm going to sentence Trump to 10 days in jail, he's going to go straight released from jail at 1159 on Inauguration Day.

You can imagine thinking that's going to burden his role in the transition or something that we care about.

You can imagine thinking that's going to burden his role in the transition or something that we care about.

Would you like to find some excuse to derail us in an unproductive 45-minute conversation about legal ethics?

Would you like to find some excuse to derail us in an unproductive 45-minute conversation about legal ethics?

There was a follow-up story in the New York Times, I don't know if it's that read it a little bit of color, which is that apparently a group of other people in Trump world were trying to block Will Levy as not being especially conservative because he was tainted by his service for Bill Barr, who is, as listeners of the podcast may not realize, Bill Barr is regarded as a squish by the new Trump administration.

There was a follow-up story in the New York Times, I don't know if it's that read it a little bit of color, which is that apparently a group of other people in Trump world were trying to block Will Levy as not being especially conservative because he was tainted by his service for Bill Barr, who is, as listeners of the podcast may not realize, Bill Barr is regarded as a squish by the new Trump administration.

Because of his unwillingness to- Because he believed in some basic rule of law? I think that he believed that Trump lost the 2020 election and that he did not help prosecute non-existent voter fraud and so on. Are you willing to say it was non-existent? Yeah. I mean, I'm sure somebody's somewhere committed voter fraud, but not material.

Because of his unwillingness to- Because he believed in some basic rule of law? I think that he believed that Trump lost the 2020 election and that he did not help prosecute non-existent voter fraud and so on. Are you willing to say it was non-existent? Yeah. I mean, I'm sure somebody's somewhere committed voter fraud, but not material.

And so apparently the New York Times claimed that Will Levy sort of orchestrated the call or asked Alito if he wanted to take a call from Trump and then asked Trump to call Alito. And then according to the New York Times story, the beginning of the call was funny because both of them sort of thought the other one had called. Yeah.

And so apparently the New York Times claimed that Will Levy sort of orchestrated the call or asked Alito if he wanted to take a call from Trump and then asked Trump to call Alito. And then according to the New York Times story, the beginning of the call was funny because both of them sort of thought the other one had called. Yeah.

Alito was standing by for a call from Trump and then Trump thought that Alito had asked to talk to him. And so they're both like, what are we doing here?

Alito was standing by for a call from Trump and then Trump thought that Alito had asked to talk to him. And so they're both like, what are we doing here?