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Drive-By Rulings | Interview: J. Joel Alicea

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

J. Joel Alicea, professor at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law, joins Sarah Isgur and David French to discuss race-conscious redistricting. Then, they viciously attack Professor Alicea for thinking text, history, and tradition is wrong. The Agenda:—Congressional acquiescence—Louisiana v. Callais—On questions presented—Bruen Was Right by J. Joel Alicea—The three eras of originalism—Listener email: Has Bruen made any babies? Show notes:—SCOTUSblog coverage of Louisiana v. Callais—Allen v. Milligan 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 French, and we have a very special

0:24.1

return of a friend of the pod for you today, because we're going to do some Voting Rights Act,

0:30.5

equal protection clause redistricting. God knows it's in the news enough right now. And

0:35.9

text history and tradition, the three stages of originalism.

0:40.9

What's wrong with this?

0:42.9

Coming up on advisory opinions and don't miss my email from a listener at the end.

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you sign up for your one dollar a month trial at shopify dot com slash setup and let's welcome

1:22.8

returning friend of the pod professor joel aliceaa from Catholic University and director of the Center for the Constitution and the Catholic intellectual tradition.

1:33.9

Welcome back.

1:34.7

Thanks, Sarah.

1:35.4

Glad to be here.

1:36.6

So I tricked you into coming on this podcast to talk about your law review article on Bruin, but ha- ha, we're going to start with redistricting,

1:45.0

which, you know, in constitutional law world is almost as far away from Bruin and text

1:52.7

history and tradition as you can get. And so this is a test of your emergency con law knowledge.

1:59.0

To get listeners up to speed on the latest news,

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