Can Transgender People Serve in the Military?

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🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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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: –Sign up for the SCOTUSblog newsletter –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 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.
0:05.0	That's David French, and we've got three cases from the Supreme Court that you know what, you don't think you're going to care about them. But you're actually probably still not going to care that much about them. But they're fun, guys.
0:32.1	No, you will. You will. We started off not caring and then we ended up caring a lot. We'll also talk about the D.C. Circuit decision on Trump's ban for transgender military members, accommodations running rampant at law schools, and bad behavior by judges continues once again.
0:51.4	But before we jump into it, David, two things to mention. One, you should
0:55.7	sign up for the A.O. newsletter because we are sending out the video transcript, a summary of what
1:01.6	all we're doing. You can sign up for the newsletter at SCOTUSBlog.com slash podcast slash advisory
1:08.0	opinions or just go to SCOTUS blog and get to A.O. You'll find it. Also, David,
1:13.7	we've got merch. That's right. If you ever needed a hat that tells people, I'm a dork,
1:22.0	but in different words, we have hats that say advisory opinions and SCOTUS blog and all of the above.
1:29.6	So that way you can spot each other like legislative history, your friends across a crowded party.
1:35.8	David, tell them where they can find their merch.
1:38.2	It is so easy, Sarah.
1:40.3	You can go to store.
1:42.6	Dot the dispatch.com and just look for SCotus blog on the top. Yes. And when you do
1:48.9	the advisory opinions collection alone within the Scotus blog store, good stuff. I'm a hatted
1:55.6	officinado. As a bald man, I'm naturally drawn to hats. David, David, I got you a replacement for your George Washington Battlestar hat.
2:04.4	I'll be giving it to you on July 8th when we do our term review, a live advisory opinion in Washington, D.C.
2:12.6	So I'm going to hand you your George Washington Battlestar hat that you left at one of our previous live tapings, because I know how much you loved that hat. Well, I'll just say that you replacing that
2:20.4	I lost is exhibited infinity of why Nancy calls you Queen Sarah. All right. Let's do some law.
2:27.8	This episode is brought to you by Coca-Cola Zero, official partner of the FIFA World Cup
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