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Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The D.C. Circuit has decided to hear the Michael Flynn debacle en banc. For the meantime, as Sarah reminds us on today’s episode, “Michael Flynn seems to be getting some extra justice that a lot of criminal defendants would be really happy to get.” If it goes back to the district court, would Trump pardon him? Our podcasters weigh in. On Thursday morning, President Trump tweeted that we should consider delaying the election over mail in ballot concerns, which of course he can’t do without congressional approval. Based on data collected from states that regularly use mail-in voting in elections, election fraud isn’t a real concern. But it’s also worth noting that these states were able to plan for their elections years in advance, whereas the pandemic is forcing states into preparing for mail-in voting on a mass scale on very short notice. Are states ready for the legal discrepancies and inevitable ballot invalidations that will ensue? Beyond some election punditry, our podcast hosts also touch on the Supreme Court conference leaks to CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic, the latest updates with DACA, and some hot takes on the importance of the bar exam. Show Notes: -Trump tweet about delaying the election. -Inside scoop on conservative justices from CNN’s Joan Biskupic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Izger. We are part of the Dispatch.com.
0:28.0	We are going to go over to the Dispatch.com and check us out.
0:30.0	And to all our many new listeners, we'd really appreciate it if you could go.
0:34.0	Rate us on Apple Podcasts and subscribe. Make sure you've subscribed on Apple Podcasts to this marvelous,
0:42.0	niche, legal, political, nerd production.
0:46.0	And if you're new, I'm just going to go ahead and tell you today will be further evidence.
0:52.0	Sarah, that we're always right.
0:54.0	It's true.
0:55.0	So how are we right today?
0:59.0	Well, the DC Circuit has decided to hear the Michael Flynn debacle on Bunk, which, look, I'm going to give us like 97%.
1:09.0	Because we obviously said that they were going to take it on Bunk.
1:13.0	In part because it was sort of panel roulette to get Rao and Henderson on the same panel.
1:19.0	And that was not representative of the makeup of the DC Circuit.
1:23.0	And just in general, those things can often go on Bunk.
1:25.0	But I'll tell you what we got wrong.
1:27.0	I thought it would happen much faster than this.
1:29.0	They did take a while.
1:31.0	Right. Yeah, they did take a while.
1:33.0	But as many of our listeners will know, once a circuit court decides to take a panel decision on Bunk,
1:43.0	it's as if the panel decision never happened.
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