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Divided Argument — S7E1: Summary & HighlightsOne-line summary (Beamly)Season 7 opens with a Court busy not deciding: an Alito recusal, a quorum lost to four book deals, and a stern Purcell per curiam for Missouri. Show notesSeason 7 opens after a long delay, a dead sound mixer, and a host who punched himself in the face, so we start with the things the Court didn't decide. Justice Alito's late recusal from Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County and the four book deals that cost the Court a quorum in BMG Rights Management v. Vetter get us into the recusal rules and the odd machinery of 28 U.S.C. § 2109. Then the Court's fall run of Purcell rulings: the stay denied in U.S. Postal Service v. California, the unusually stern per curiam in People Not Politicians v. Onder that ended Missouri's redistricting saga, and the stay in Scanlan v. Coalition for Open Democracy. We close with the third trip of Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D. and its oddly open-ended questions presented. Along the way: Dan's new essay on the justices' books, John Marshall's unread biography of Washington, Rehnquist's unpublished novels, and the other Dan Sullivan. Highlights• [00:00:22]