[00:00:18] The penultimate opinion day — four down, four to go
[00:00:50] The last-day pileup, and the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance case still pending
[00:03:25] A confession: staircase wit, and the metaphor Will wishes he'd used
[00:04:27] The living tree as an originalist — and the petrified-tree rejoinder
[00:06:01] The new custom-cover workflow, and what Claude still isn't allowed to write
[00:07:00] The day's four opinions: Cook, Slaughter, Chatrie, and Watson v. RNC
[00:09:50] Is the Court strategic about opinion timing? A walk back through OT21's last days
[00:13:55] Slaughter before Cook: the general rule before the exception
[00:15:08] "Humphrey's Executor has always already been overruled" — by way of continental philosophy
[00:17:36] Slaughter: the question, Humphrey's Executor, and the road from Morrison v. Olson through Seila Law
[00:22:12] Why presidents mostly haven't tested removal — and whether this shifts the equilibrium
[00:25:29] Walking the opinion: Roberts for the Court, the Thomas non-join, a Sotomayor (not Kagan) dissent
[00:27:30] The Decision of 1789, the history fight, and the "good arguments on both sides" that made Will a "witless hack"
[00:33:19] Part III-B's reserved questions and the Gorsuch concurrence's non-delegation wish list
[00:43:06] Cook: procedurally on the interim docket, and why it comes out the other way
[00:46:00] The Chief's history tour — the Bank of North America, Hamilton, and an accomplished yachtsman
[00:49:00] The Fed as the "third bank"; Bamzai & Nielson and the monetary-vs-regulatory problem
[00:50:25] The chain of moves: reviewability, a Goldilocks "cause," and the equity remedy
[00:53:11] Footnote 2 and the Ex parte Young mystery — Armstrong, CASA, and Bivens
[00:58:41] Process not received: a Truth Social post isn't enough, and what Cook gets next
[01:00:54] "The interim docket" enters the U.S. Reports
[01:01:52] The separate writings: Kavanaugh (save the economy), Jackson (equities), Thomas's solo dissent
[01:04:45] Alito-Gorsuch and Barrett: hard questions, and skepticism of a carve-out defended "for secret reasons"
[01:11:26] Sign-off: if there's a long delay before the next episode, it's because we've lost removal protection
