First Step Act: stacking provisions and nonretroactivity

David Lat joins Sarah Isgur (see ya later, French) to discuss the three-judge panel overturning Alabama’s congressional maps, a new lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s slush fund, and a lying Judge.

The Agenda:

–No redistricting according to race

–Nonsense lawsuits

–Dragging courts into political fights

–Moving honey buns is interstate commerce

–Sanction more judges?

–Feeling Wicker-ty

–The Arbitration Act is sexy!

–Making clerks very uncomfortable

Show Notes:

–Pitchford v. Cain 

–Flowers Foods v. Brock

–Rutherford v. United States

–Fernandez v. United States–Wickard v. Filburn

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