Advisory Opinions

Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the 5-4 ballroom interim docket decision with Chief Justice John Roberts leading the dissenters, the New York Times with a piece on releasing the justice’s papers sooner rather than later, and a piece by Josh Morrow on AI in circuit decisions. And speaking of circuit decisions, Sarah and David discuss a few, including the Vacancies Reform Act and the 26th Amendment.

The Agenda:

–Goodbye East Wing

–Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife

–Will Baude on esthetic injuries

–Should the justices release their papers sooner?

–Should this actually be happening

–South Carolina’s voting law is unconstitutional

–Update on Vacancies Reform Act

Show Notes:

–David Lat’s Substack

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Sarah Isgur and David French pick through a trail mix of topics for this week’s episode.  The two discuss bracelet-wearing parents at a soccer game, student visas being revoked over bad speech, and classified information being printed. But they kick it off with a big “Sarah got it wrong.”

The Agenda:

–Sarah got it wrooooooong

–Breaking news and the mail-in ballot decision

–Pentagon leaks and the Washington Post

–FIRE’s win and student visas

–Felons can vote in Minnesota

–Trans athletes and pink bracelets

–James O’Keefe and pretty interns

–Predicting SCOTUS cases

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Sarah Isgur and David French invite real life Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts to discuss how to reform Congress, explain multi-member districting, and wtalk about hether the Supreme Court needs more justices. But first, forging Justice John Robert’s signature and fake arresting teenagers.

The Agenda:

–Bad criming

–Even if a judge is in judges robes, they’re not always a judge

–All the headlines are wrong (except ours)

–Who wrote the Per Curiam?

–Reforms to the Supreme Court

–Are your kids violent?

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Sarah Isgur and David French invite  former D.C. Circuit judges Tom Griffith and David Tatel to discuss relationships, judicial independence, and what it means to be a “former” judge. But first, bar complaints and the White House ballroom injunction.

The Agenda:

–⁠The worst of the worst, District Judge edition⁠

–Someone file a bar complaint!

–⁠We’re the least surprised when the White House injunction came down⁠

–Disagreeing respectfully

–What’s next for judges after they retire?

–Breaking news

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David French and Sarah Isgur steelman Justice John Paul Stevens and Justice Stephen Breyers’s dissents in the Heller case through a one-act play produced by ChatGPT. The two also invite Chris Scalia to play the majority opinion writer (and his late father) Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Agenda:

–One act, three justices

–What AI got right and wrong

–Justice Breyer, fully vindicated

–Shul is Yiddish and Friends of the Earth is SCOTUS precedent

Show Notes:

–Originalism and Stare Decisis

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