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Advisory Opinions

From 1918 to 1968

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

David and Sarah discuss the latest news out of the Supreme Court including the court denying a California church's lockdown challenge, Rep. Justin Amash's plan to introduce legislation to end qualified immunity for police officers, Sen. Tom Cotton's call to invoke the Insurrection Act, the president's call to label ANTIFA a terrorist organization, and a return to their debate over law school. Show Notes: -Supreme Court California church ruling -Judge Willett opinion -David's Sunday newsletter -Nancy's video from the Nashville protest 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 Isger.

0:24.0

And once again, we have no shortage of things to talk about.

0:28.0

Actually, we had a little trouble before we started trying to figure out what

0:32.0

order to take things because there's so many important things happening at once.

0:36.0

So we're going to kind of go chronologically in importance.

0:40.0

We're going to start off with the Freshest of Fresh News, which is a basically no news

0:46.0

Supreme Court order day that has some relevance for what we call Supreme Court bingo.

0:52.0

Well, we don't just call it Supreme Court bingo.

0:56.0

What Supreme Court nerds call Supreme Court bingo, which allows us to sort of

1:00.0

try to predict who's going to write which opinions, which then allows us to try to read the tea leaves of how those opinions will come out.

1:08.0

We're also going to talk about of Justice Roberts order where he joined for democratic appointed judges, justices on Friday to refuse to issue an injunction on behalf of churches who are seeking a wider opening in California.

1:24.0

That was a very, very, very interesting order and extremely relevant to a lot of the pandemic related debates about religious liberty.

1:32.0

We're going to talk about qualified immunity again because Justin Amash, a friend of the pod, Sarah, Justin Amash, is going to be introducing legislation to repeal qualified

1:45.0

immunities. We're going to talk about what that might look like. We're going to talk about the president's decision via tweet as I'm not quite sure that has any actual legal effect to call antifa a terrorist organization.

1:58.0

What that means, if anything, we're going to talk about a US Senator threatening no quarter to writers, looters and insurrectionists and why that's unlawful.

2:13.0

And then we're actually believe it or not going to leave more room by popular demand for the law school conversation, which we kind of gave short shrift to actually last time because we thought that our podcast was running long.

2:28.0

So believe it or not and all of that we're going to actually give more time to the law school discussion.

2:35.0

And before we dive in, one is remind everyone that this podcast is a production of dispatch media go to the dispatch.com to check us out.

2:45.0

We'd love if you became a member. We'd love if you subscribe to this podcast and also if you rate us positively on Apple podcasts.

2:54.0

But now onto the main event. Sarah, you have Supreme Court news for us.

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