District Map Fights Before the 2026 Midterms

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

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David Lat joins Sarah Isgur (see ya later, French) to discuss the three-judge panel overturning Alabama’s congressional maps, a new lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s slush fund, and a lying Judge. The Agenda: –No redistricting according to race –Nonsense lawsuits –Dragging courts into political fights –Moving honey buns is interstate commerce –Sanction more judges? –Feeling Wicker-ty –The Arbitration Act is sexy! –Making clerks very uncomfortable Show Notes: –Pitchford v. Cain –Flowers Foods v. Brock –Rutherford v. United States –Fernandez v. United States–Wickard v. Filburn Advisory Opinions is a production of⁠ SCOTUSblog⁠ and⁠ The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective.⁠ Click here⁠ to sign up for our new Advisory Opinions newsletter, and⁠ click here⁠ to access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, including⁠ audio versions⁠ of all our articles and newsletters. 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 Latt from original jurisdiction.
0:26.5	And we have, well, I'd say we have three buckets to cover with you all today.
0:31.3	Number one, some updates on things in the news. First of all, Alabama's districts not in effect anymore. The three-judge
0:40.2	panel in Alabama threw them back out for the 26 midterm elections citing Section 2 of the Voting
0:47.6	Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. That thing that everyone said was toothless. It's going back to the
0:52.2	Supreme Court. Let's see what happens next.
0:54.9	And a new lawsuit against the slush fund, kind of, even more meritless than the last one.
1:01.7	Then we've got four decisions from the Supreme Court. One on the Federal Arbitration Act.
1:06.5	Do not turn off this podcast because you heard FAA. This is going to be fun arbitration talk here,
1:11.1	and you will all stay for it because the Arbitration Act is sexy as hell. And then we have three
1:16.5	criminal cases, one on Bats and Challenges, and two on the First Step Act. And last, this one,
1:23.7	not safe for work maybe? A judge issued a judicial reprimand for having relations in chambers
1:33.2	that her clerks could hear with a law enforcement officer and then lied about it when confronted
1:41.8	with the complaint. And is there anyone better to talk to about this
1:47.1	than David Latt? I think not. Let's go. Some follow the noise. Bloomberg follows the money.
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