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Advisory Opinions

Federalizing D.C. | Live From the Alaska Federal Bar Association

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

Politics, News, Government

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Isgur and David French break down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching use of executive powers—from calling in the National Guard at home to pushing the limits of tariff authority abroad. Then, they continue part two of life advice for lawyers with 9th Circuit Judge Patrick Bumatay. The Agenda:—Sarah and David and Putin, oh my!— “Presence patrols" in the nation's capital”—Trump administration's 28(j) letter—Judge Readler claps alone for the 6th Circuit—The physics of guns and “bad man stays in jail doctrine”—Navigating failures in legal careers—Answering audience questions 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 advisory opinions.

0:25.3

I'm Sarah Isker and that's David French and for today's episodes, you'll hear audience in commotion.

0:26.2

That's because David and I are at the Alaska Federal Bar Association, where it is a balmy

0:31.7

55 degrees this morning and we thought you'd like to listen in.

0:35.9

That's coming up on advisory opinions.

0:41.2

That is a fantastic solicited reception. Yes. We appreciate it very much. I will say that,

0:47.7

you know, I was getting ready to flyer, and I was telling some of my colleagues I was going to

0:50.7

Anchorage, and they say, you're going for the big meeting. And I said, yes, the Alaska Bar Association meeting is a very big meeting.

0:57.4

So we're very happy to be here.

0:59.7

And what a remarkable coincidence that we scheduled this eight to ten months ago.

1:03.5

I mean, a long time ago and on the very eve of a pretty crucial world event.

1:09.9

So I don't know about y'all, but I'm going to be

1:11.8

looking out the window for Russia Force One when it arrives, and Air Force One. And we had a discussion.

1:18.5

What do they call the Russian president's airplane? And I think we settled around the Death Star.

1:26.3

But it was, we don't know that quite, so maybe one of you can tell us later.

1:30.7

But we're not going to be talking about that today.

1:33.2

I also learned, much to my chagrin, that Alaska is three times the size of Texas at low tide.

1:43.1

So as a Texan who is here before you all, I will never mention that

1:47.4

again. We are going to have a fun show. This will come in three parts. We'll do some news of the

1:54.5

day in the first part dealing with the National Guard in Washington, D.C., the ongoing tariff kerfuffle, and a interesting Sixth Circuit

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