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Divided Argument

Will Baude & Dan Epps

An unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. Hosted by Will Baude and Dan Epps.

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Listen to Divided Argument, a Government & Organizations podcast by Will Baude & Dan Epps. Stream 128 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Watch Snobs

We open with the usual grab bag—the "foot fault" pun buried in a Justice Thomas opinion, reading Justice Alito's clerk-hiring tea leaves, an...

01:16:51Jun 14, 2026

Impregnable Citadel of Technicality

After puzzling over an interesting follow-up question about Pitchford v. Cain, we unpack a summary vacatur in Whitton v. Dixon . We then spe...

01:12:49Jun 8, 2026

Smooth Stone in the River

The Court has been busy, and we somehow manage to cover a number of developments with unpredictable efficiency. We talk about the Court's la...

01:10:40Jun 1, 2026

Ninja Court Packing

Live from the American Law Institute with Pam Karlan, we untangle a chaotic stretch of the interim docket—the Alabama redistricting GVR, Vir...

01:08:48May 19, 2026

Majordoma

We dissect the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais decision and its sweeping narrowing of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, exploring how...

01:01:14May 7, 2026

Even Eve-ier

We cover leaked SCOTUS memos, shadow docket reversals, Sotomayor's Kavanaugh apology, and a contractor preemption case narrowing an infamous...

01:00:51Apr 29, 2026

Backup backup backup backup argument

We recap and reflect on the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara (the birthright citizenship case) and then analyze the Court's recent decisio...

01:17:53Apr 6, 2026

Jezebel Shouting

We're live at WashU Law's Admitted Students Day! After catching up on some shadow docket activity, we dig into Olivier v. City of Brandon ,...

00:37:47Apr 2, 2026

A Subversive Mission

We announce an exciting new partnership with SCOTUSblog and introduce the show to new listeners. We then return to the mysterious origins of...

00:50:46Mar 11, 2026

Cruel and Unusual and Stupid

It's our live show at the University of Chicago! Hosted by the University of Chicago Federalist Society, we discuss this week's big shadow-d...

00:47:55Mar 6, 2026

Betty Boop or Shakespeare

With unpredictable timeliness, we have a quasi-emergency episode on the 170-page tariffs decision, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump . Come...

01:26:23Feb 21, 2026

Ayn Rand Graffiti

We're back for another live show at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, hosted by the Northwestern Federalist Society! We discuss the t...

00:57:18Feb 4, 2026

Bok Choy

With shocking and uncharacteristic efficiency, we manage to discuss three merits opinions and one orders list dissent in only 47 minutes. Sp...

00:47:28Jan 22, 2026

Lake Shrimp

We didn't get the tariffs decision this week, but we discuss two of the opinions we did get -- Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections , a decis...

00:53:36Jan 16, 2026

The Marshal and the Margarine

We're back with the first episode of the new year, breaking down the interim docket opinion/order in Trump v. Illinois , the national guard...

01:18:33Jan 12, 2026

Non-Cake Physical Object

We're back to break down a month's worth of shadow docket activity -- three recent summary reversals, plus the stay in the Texas gerrymander...

01:17:15Dec 19, 2025

Counter-Counter-Counter-Designations

Will and Dan record a rare live show in an unusual venue: the Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia, at the annual attorney retreat for...

00:55:24Nov 20, 2025

Proximity Mines in the Facility

After a predictably unpredictable set of detours through Latin grammar, parenting philosophies, and 90s video games, we catch up on the late...

01:18:29Nov 15, 2025

Proust or Plato

For the season finale, we're joined by Yale law professor Justin Driver to talk about his new book, "The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, t...

00:52:35Oct 3, 2025