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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French, live from the FIRE Student Network Summer Conference, discuss free speech in non-profits and schools before Sarah takes listeners through the history of Citizens United. Before the youth bring their questions, Sarah and David talk Clinton documentaries and how campaign financing could be a little better. The Agenda:—Can 501(c)3’s endorse a candidate?—No “false” pronouns in Florida classrooms—The pain of campaign history and the core of protected speech—Citizens United, yay!—Put your money where your speech is—Why Citizens United didn’t matter—Discontent in the American public is the American public’s fault—Why super PACs stink—Put your money where the name is—Free speech and David’s disagreement with FIRE—Mahmoud: right outcome, wrong reasoning This episode is brought to you by Burford Capital, the leading global finance firm focused on law. Burford helps companies and law firms unlock the value of their legal assets. With a $7.2 billion portfolio and listings on the NYSE and LSE, Burford provides capital to finance high-value commercial litigation and arbitration—without adding cost, risk, or giving up control. Clients include Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 firms, who turn to Burford to pursue strong claims, manage legal costs, and accelerate recoveries. Learn more at ⁠burfordcapital.com/ao⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Advisory Opinions is presented by Burford Capital, the leading finance firm focused on law.
0:05.8	Ready?
0:07.6	I was born ready.
0:25.5	Welcome to advisory opinions.
0:26.7	I'm Sarah Isgher.
0:27.9	That's David French.
0:33.7	And all of those other amazing human beings are here for the Fire Student Conference,
0:38.9	the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression at the National Constitution Center.
0:45.9	And David, I would be remiss if I did not mention that we are sitting right in front of the text of the First Amendment that was brought here on these really cool trucks from the D. the DC Museum a couple years ago in fact the
0:59.2	unveiling of this happened the day of the Dobbsley the day of the Dobbsley yes because I was
1:07.0	here for the unveiling and I went to go get my cheese steak and they just handed me
1:11.5	the most delicious, gooey, wit-wiz cheese steak.
1:17.6	And my phone started blowing up.
1:20.2	And if you remember, when it first hit, we didn't know if it was like a legit opinion or whatever.
1:26.2	And I talked to husband of the pod and he said the footnotes are
1:31.7	correctly formatted and I hopped in my car and went 95 down 95 yeah so it was all but like this is
1:41.4	it's so beautiful I just it brings me a lot of joy to be right here.
1:45.6	Well, and actually we were like destined to be here at this moment. So I'm former fire. We're at the
1:51.3	fire student conference. We love fire. And we're in front of the First Amendment. And we probably
1:56.0	talk about the First Amendment more than all the others combined, maybe?
2:03.0	It's certainly our plurality amendment.
2:03.9	Yeah, absolutely.
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