Aliens and Enemies

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French review the Trump administration’s latest executive order targeting law firms, the legal challenge against the White House’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, and the problems surrounding universal injunctions. The Agenda: —David’s dangerous brush with nature —Trump’s non-strategic executive orders against law firms —Can the courts review a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act? —Is immigration an “invasion”? —OPM ain’t got no standing —Sued for cracking, then sued for packing (in a redistricting case) —The 0-9 prediction on nondelegation case Show Notes: —Executive order against Jenner & Block —Executive order against WilmerHale Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.4	I was born ready.
0:03.7	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Iskir. That's David French, who just escaped death as a tornado ran through his neighborhood and maybe didn't even get that close. But still, we're happy you're here, David.
0:34.6	Thank you, Sarah. I think, so I think it got kind of close, but did not hit us.
0:41.3	It dissipated before it hit us.
0:42.8	But we had the really exquisitely fun experience of being in the safe room,
0:47.0	watching everything unfold with that circulation.
0:49.9	You know, the Doppler radar has the little vortex.
0:53.0	And it's literally going down the road to our
0:56.1	house. And then you have the really fun experience of the news of the meteorologist on the news
1:01.9	going saying your street name. Oh, that is pretty bad. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, I don't like that.
1:09.2	Okay, but you had three dogs, two cats in the room?
1:12.4	Two dogs.
1:13.5	And the two cats and the two dogs do not coexist.
1:16.4	So the two cats were kind of in another part of the house.
1:19.7	And the two dogs were in the safe room with us.
1:22.2	One of them vibrating, like shaking so much.
1:26.0	Wait, David.
1:26.8	Yeah.
1:27.1	Do you just tell me that your cats were not in the safe room?
1:29.8	They were in a safe room, not the one the humans and the dogs were in.
1:33.9	They were in a room with no interior, you know, no windows, et cetera.
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