All About Slaughter

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French answer the masses’ demands in this pre-argument, foundational episode, diving into new levels of legal nerdery as they preview the oral arguments in the obscure administrative and constitutional law battle better known as Trump v. Slaughter. The Agenda:—Creating the modern administrative state—Striking the class of bureaucrats—‘But this wolf comes as a wolf’—Taft takes care of his bros—Military justice and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions Show Notes:—Adam White’s episode with Sarah Isgur—Join us for our December 8 livestream!—Meyers v. United States—Can you challenge a state subpoena in federal court? 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—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French, and it's the podcast we've all been waiting for.
0:26.0	This is your deep dive into independent agencies, the slaughter case that's getting argued on Monday, and dun dun dun dun humphrey's executor. Okay, okay so look this is really a two-part podcast because
0:41.4	the case is getting argued on Monday and we will have our live pod after that argument ends but we
0:48.8	want to jump right into the argument which means you need to listen to this podcast so that you
0:53.3	understand all the ways that we marched
0:56.6	here over the last 130 years. And we also have an argument at the Supreme Court that we'll need
1:03.9	to talk about first choice women's resource centers versus Plotkin and we'll do a little
1:09.7	update on that second boat strike as well.
1:13.1	But let's do this, advisory opinions.
1:18.1	I want to talk to my fellow attorneys for a moment.
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