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Advisory Opinions

Castle Doctrine Differences

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

People who watch and comment on politics do so very differently than campaign operatives do. Campaigns use voter scores and voter modeling—which is essentially “Moneyball” for politics—to gauge which voters are worth spending money on. As Sarah explains: “It’s a quadrant: on the y axis you have who you’re going to vote for, and on the x axis, you have your likelihood to vote. So you may be the most Trump-y Trump person ever.” But here’s the kicker: “If I go and look back and you haven’t voted since Jimmy Carter, your propensity to vote is so low, that how much money we’re going to spend on reaching you as a voter is going to actually be pretty low.” Be sure to listen to this episode so our podcast hosts can get more into the weeds about how those voter scores are being used behind the scenes in future episodes. The country is still mourning the death of Breonna Taylor, an African American woman who was shot and killed by police officers in her Kentucky home during a no-knock raid in March. For years, no-knock warrants have withstood the test of time, given their alleged capacity to protect police and preserve evidence. But as David says, “there’s evidence that no-knock warrants are constitutionally deficient,” and “as a practical matter, castle doctrine and no-knock warrants are incompatible.” Sarah, on the other hand, doesn’t believe the castle doctrine should apply to police. Are no knock raids worth preserving? Why are they so broadly granted to police officers? Sarah and David have answers. Catch up on the latest episode for an update on the Michael Flynn case, subpoenas for Trump’s financial records, and the Hatch Act. Show Notes: -Sarah’s newsletter, The Sweep, Jonah’s column on silent MAGA voters. -SCOTUS opinion authored by Justice Alito on no-knock raids, D.C. v. Heller. -“Flip It and Reverse It: Squirrel Edition” episode of Advisory Opinions. -“Trump’s Bank Was Subpoenaed by N.Y. Prosecutors in Criminal Inquiry” in the New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isker.

0:25.0

And if you're new tuning into us, I don't know, can you still say tuning in in the air of podcasts?

0:30.0

For sure.

0:31.0

Okay. If you're new tuning into us, we are part of the dispatch media, the dispatch.com.

0:37.0

Go check us out. Become a free lister if you want to just sort of sample our wares.

0:42.0

Or if you're totally convinced that you are, that this is the greatest new media property in the history of the universe, which it is, you can become a member of it.

0:53.0

And you will be convinced of that in an hour.

0:55.0

Oh, less. I think 30, 40 minutes tops.

0:59.0

But we've got a lot to talk about. This is not one of the special nerd August podcasts. We had a fantastic nerd podcast on last Monday or Monday, not last Monday, Monday, where we talked dinosaurs.

1:14.0

And I would urge you, if you're catching up to go back and listen to that, that was fantastic. And then we're going to have another nerd podcast coming Monday.

1:24.0

So that's a great way to talk about what's going to happen.

1:27.0

It's going to be a nice topic when you get to it, but it is not going to disappoint.

1:31.0

But today, I must say disappointingly, I know for many of you, it's going to be our typical politics law and culture.

1:41.0

But we've got a lot to cover.

1:43.0

We're going to talk about vote scoring in the politics side of the house.

1:48.0

I have been doing and I will be publishing later today a deep dive on the law surrounding the awful killing of Brianna Taylor in Louisville, which is one of the cases that is still

2:03.0

to this, you know, to this moment, really, if you're watching NBA basketball, you're going to see a lot of people who have written, say on their jersey or on their shoes, say her name.

2:13.0

It's one of the more prominent cases right now of police shootings and police violence.

2:19.0

And I'm going to untangle a tangled web of law that I assert has made not just her killing, but has made other killings and future killings inevitable.

2:31.0

So that's not going to be the most up with people topics, Sarah.

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