Euphemisms, Political Speech, and the First Amendment

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sarah Isgur and David French kick off Free Speech Week at the University of Texas School of Law to talk about the confusion around Callais oral arguments, “Let's Go Brandon,” and the John Bolton indictment. The Agenda:—Let's Go Brandon—“Everybody seems to be having a good time”—No one understands Callais—Lawfare and selective prosecutions—Q&A! Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—click here. 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 the advisory opinions podcast.
0:21.7	We are live here at the University of Texas Law School.
0:32.7	Home of several friends of the pod, Lisa Blatt, Greg Costa, too many to name. We are going to start
0:40.1	with the now famous Let's Go Brandon case. Then we're going to do some Voting Rights Act
0:46.0	fun stuff with the oral argument at the Supreme Court that if anyone tells you they understand
0:52.7	the case, frankly, they're lying.
0:55.5	And then we'll talk a little bit hopefully about the indictment of John Bolton, which
1:00.3	hits a little different than some of these previous indictments. And with that, let's kick it off.
1:07.8	I want to talk to my fellow attorneys for a moment. Do you really want to spend time on the technical
1:12.3	side of briefing, blue booking, tables, appendix assembly, bait stamping? Or would you rather focus
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1:41.2	All right, we're back. David, let's start with the Let's Go Brandon case, aka BA versus
1:47.8	tri-county area schools. Give a little shout out here to John Ross over at Short Circuit,
1:52.7	the Institute for Justice's write-up. It's hard to tell who's having the most fun in this
1:58.1	Sixth Circuit case, whether it's the majority opinion carefully identifying
2:02.1	which expletives were intended by which historical euphemisms,
2:06.1	the dissent diligently cataloging the personal insults
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