Advisory Opinions

Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the three SCOTUS decisions that dropped Thursday morning,  a D.C. Circuit decision on President Donald Trump's ban on transgender military members, and accommodations running rampant at law schools. Oh, and a federal judge charged with battery and destruction of physical property. 

The Agenda:

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–We are faced with the duddiest of duds

–What is estoppel?

–You can only try a defendant in the district where his crime was committed

–Why is a Church of the Holy Trinity reference basically a backhand?

–Transgender people can serve in the military 

–We should get rid of accommodations for aspiring attorneys 

–Burden of proof: Federal judge caught in altercation
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Sarah Isgur and David French look at what’s left on the docket from this term before diving into a little Los Angeles mayoral politics. 

The Agenda:

–Supreme Court bingo

–Do Rastafarians get religious exemptions?

–The mighty small-dollar donor 

– United States v. Hemani

–Wolford v. Lopez

–Appearance of election corruption

–No, a GOP candidate did not have a chance to become mayor of Los Angeles

–Birthright citizenship case

–Trump v. Cook: an explainer

–Banning trans athletes from girls’ sports

Show Notes:

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Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the Supreme Court’s Alabama redistricting decision, a plea deal from the former national security adviser, and the best legal movies ever made.

The Agenda:

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–Alabama’s new maps

–John Bolton pleads guilty

–Did the media actually get this right?

–Gender and the Supreme Court’s culture

–Favorite legal movies

–Another round of Would You Rather!

Show Notes:

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Sarah Isgur and David French (he returns!) discuss the major Trump losses—Kennedy Center name change, motion on Trump v. IRS, and injunction on the slush fund—before reviewing scrutiny of the court and the swatting incident at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s residence. 

The Agenda:

–Sarah returns to the greatest state in the U-S-of-A

–Kicking Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center

–The Flight 93 problem

–Trump v. IRS

–Justice Barrett swatted

–A Justice’s son having a job is a scandal, I guess. 

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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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