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Advisory Opinions

Brutally Unfair, Legally Complicated

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On today’s not-quite-emergency pod, Sarah and David have thoughts to share about the Supreme Court’s orders from last Friday. David discusses the ins and outs of the Arlene’s Flowers case, where the court denied an appeal from a flower shop owner that refused to design arrangements for a same-sex wedding, and analyzes how Supreme Court justices don’t always rule the way people predict. Then Sarah goes into a slew of other orders from the court on qualified immunity for university admins, religious liberty for the Amish, defamation against public figures, and eminent domain. Plus, David and Sarah review a ruling from a Minneapolis judge that throws a wrench into “defund the police.” Show Notes: -Friday Supreme Court orders -Writ of mandamus from Minneapolis judge on police force Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast.

0:07.0

It's this is actually a special edition because we had planned to take the first podcast

0:13.2

of the week off because July 5th is July 4th observed and the Supreme Court term had

0:20.1

ended Sarah and it was time to take a deep breath.

0:23.5

We've got a great guest next week.

0:25.1

We're going to start to transition into cool guest phase of advisory opinions.

0:30.3

So you won't want to miss it.

0:32.4

And then the Supreme Court goes ahead and on Friday issues and orders list that was lit

0:39.2

as the kids say had a lot in it and wow.

0:45.8

So here we are on a special Tuesday edition of the podcast with a lot to talk about.

0:54.5

And let's just start Sarah.

0:56.5

So we're going to talk Supreme Court.

0:57.8

We're going to start talk about some really interesting fifth circuit case about involving

1:02.4

bar dues.

1:04.0

Sounds boring is not.

1:06.0

And then a wild order out of a Minneapolis court.

1:09.4

So this is this is a lot.

1:12.9

So Sarah start us off.

1:15.9

Well fascinating because this is sort of an emergency pod except I think we can all

1:21.5

acknowledge that the final orders list is not itself qualifies an emergency plus that

1:25.9

was on Friday and today is Tuesday.

1:27.9

So I actually think this may go more to the fact that we have trouble taking time off.

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