[00:00:21] Cold open: three recording sessions in three days, and the theories swirling around the Nina Totenberg screw-up
[00:02:04] Justice Alito's embargo story: the press-room idea he liked until he learned they have to let the journalists out of the room
[00:03:04] My Grandfather's Son follow-up: Justice Thomas's over-cautious marijuana confession
[00:04:35] Cleanup-order watch: GVRs still owed in light of Slaughter, Landor, and B.P.J.
[00:04:57] The main event: Chatrie v. United States, the geofence-warrant case — and why a 5-Justice Fourth Amendment majority is a good get for Justice Kagan
[00:06:51] What a geofence actually is (there is no fence) and the three-step Google Location History protocol
[00:13:52] General warrants, particularity, the University of Chicago backpacks hypo, and Ybarra v. Illinois — with a field-trip assignment to the Aurora Tap House
[00:21:09] Three questions — search, reasonableness, exclusion — and the clever cert grant that fenced out the exclusionary rule
[00:25:52] The setup: Jones and the two tracks of Fourth Amendment doctrine, step 0 (the third-party doctrine), then Carpenter
[00:33:13] Will's positive law model of the Fourth Amendment, and Justice Gorsuch's Carpenter dissent
[00:36:29] Orin Kerr's mosaic theory: "building out the mosaic Byzantine style, it starts to become searchier"
[00:39:15] Kagan shuts the mosaic door: where the Fourth Amendment applies, it applies regardless of quantity — a fortiori from Carpenter
[00:47:36] What survives of the third-party doctrine: Strava, public Venmo feeds, and the "For heroin" hypo
[00:50:53] Why it's a big deal: the anti-mosaic holding, and a majority of Justices revealed as Carpenter people
[00:54:48] Tangent: Face ID, the Fifth Amendment, Will's forgotten passcodes, and his enemies
[00:56:55] Does the Stored Communications Act make all this academic?
[00:58:34] The Jackson concurrence's particularity nudge, en banc remand practice, and Levy & Newman on unwritten circuit rules
[01:00:43] The Gorsuch concurrence: papers, effects, property — Will disowns it and gives it to Dan's general-law approach
[01:08:36] The Alito dissent: the advisory-opinion objection, footnote 4, the Davis carve-out, and the NRA v. Vullo precedent for a do-over remand
[01:18:59] Justice Barrett's à-la-carte joins and her one-paragraph dissent — "we should have more dissents like this"
[01:22:31] Two kinds of law professors, "The Supreme Court Flunks Trusts," and whether we're good on law
[01:24:15] Sign-off: the rare promise of a schedule — a fourth recording session this week