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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a lot more first rate Supreme Court analysis for you in today’s pod. David and Sarah break down the most recent cert grant announcements and the court’s refusal to hear some contentious cases involving interstate conflict, transgender bathroom access, and marijuana. They then dive into the Supreme Court’s opinion in Lombardo v. City of St. Louis, which asked a lower court to reevaluate whether police used excessive force in kneeling on the back of a handcuffed suspect who later died. Also, Sarah gives her thoughts on Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, a property law dispute involving union recruiting that divided the Supreme Court along even ideological lines. Finally, David and Sarah discuss a heated confrontation at the 5th Circuit about a case involving police officers who tased a person soaked in gasoline and set him on fire. Show Notes: -Thomas statement on federal marijuana laws -John Lombardo v. City of St. Louis, Missouri -Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid -5th Circuit ruling on police incineration -5th Circuit ruling on en banc petition (and Justice Willett’s dissent) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isker. We've got

0:09.0

Supreme Court cases, rulings, orders to talk about. We've got, wow, a fight at the fifth

0:18.0

circuit with a brawl, unusual, unusual vitriol, Sarah. Did you say brawl? Yeah. Yeah, that's

0:27.7

fair. So we've got a ton to cover today. But before we cover that, let's priorities are

0:34.9

priorities. Over the weekend, you tweeted out that you were headed to urgent care with

0:40.6

the brisket. And there was an outpouring of concern. And what's going on, Sarah? Everything

0:48.7

okay? First of all, he is fine. I feel terrible that I worried people. It was one of those

0:53.8

things that I'm sitting at a red light. And I'm just, you know, I'm feeling so helpless.

0:59.9

And I was just reflecting on the fact that like we have this podcast, you know, these law

1:04.3

degrees, it's experience, and it's all useless. And like I was thinking like how desperately

1:09.1

I wished that like my best friend was a pediatrician except my best friend from high school actually

1:15.1

is a pediatrician. And she was on vacation. I was still bugging her a lot. And she was the

1:19.5

one who said like maybe you should go to urgent care. He just had a fever that I was having

1:24.2

trouble getting down and you know, vomiting diarrhea, all the things that a one year old

1:29.1

gets. And it was Saturday night. And it's like, you know, do you really want to then go

1:35.2

through the whole night and urgent care closed at 10. Right. It was a judgment call.

1:41.8

But I feel terrible that I worried people. That was not my intention. I felt so guilty

1:45.7

that all these people were then worried and like sending their like spending their prayer

1:50.5

time on us, which then I like took a beat after like the guilt washed over me and was just

1:55.5

so incredibly thankful. So I am sorry that I worried people. I am incredibly grateful

2:01.0

for all of the prayers and outpouring. And he's doing better today. Much better.

2:07.1

Good. Good. Is he is he well? Is he, but he's I mean, like, no, not yet, but some of

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