Advisory Opinions
The Dispatch
Advisory Opinions is a legal podcast by The Dispatch. Hosts David French and Sarah Isgur meet twice a week to talk about the law, the courts, their collision with politics, and why it all matters.
Episodes
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Jan 27, 2020 • 59min
All But Assured
David and Sarah discuss the news from John Bolton's book, what's wrong with Congress, and the death of Kobe Bryant.
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Jan 22, 2020 • 1h 3min
Play in the Joints
David and Sarah discuss the administration's moves to protect prayer in public schools with Jennie Bradley Lichter, the deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Little Sisters return to the Supreme Court, and justices will hear the faithless electors case.
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Jan 16, 2020 • 48min
Do Crimes
David and Sarah take a closer look at the new impeachment evidence, the continuing legal objections to the strike that killed Qassim Suleimani, and what exactly is Mike Bloomberg doing?
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Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 2min
Tom Hanks' Face
David and Sarah engage in a wide-ranging analysis of John Bolton's potential testimony before the Senate, whether Trump can tweet his way through the War Powers Act (or legally bomb cultural sites), and we discuss whether Chief Justice Roberts will touch Roe v. Wade. And then they talk about Tom Hanks at the Golden Globes.
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Jan 3, 2020 • 60min
Laws of War
Sarah and David discuss the killing of Iranian general Qassim Suleimani, ask WWJBD? (What would Jed Bartlett do?), and handicap the Democratic primary campaign. Sarah answers the burning question of the age -- is it better or worse to raise money in a wine cave?
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Dec 24, 2019 • 1h 10min
Zombie Obamacare
Former Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller joins to discuss the latest 5th Circuit opinion on Obamacare and David and Sarah discuss JK Rowling’s latest TERF tweet.
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Dec 13, 2019 • 58min
Horseshoe Theory
David and Sarah offer a quick take on the British electoral landslide, revisit the IG report, give two cheers to Trump's anti-Semitism executive order, and then discuss the virtue-signaling side of the conservative porn wars.
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Dec 10, 2019 • 59min
All About The IG
David French and Sarah Isgur launch their new podcast from The Dispatch with a detailed discussion of the Inspector General's report of FISA abuse in the 2016 election -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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