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Advisory Opinions

How Do You Square a Circle?

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The president has a new social media executive order. What happens if Trump loses in November, but doesn't want to leave? Qualified immunity and the Fourth Amendment in the context of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. House of Representatives allows proxy voting for the first time this week. And a Central Park video sparks a national conversation. David and Sarah have thoughts. Show Notes: -David's piece The Growing Threat to Free Speech Online -Republican lawsuit to block proxy voting 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.

0:24.0

And I say this all the time, but this time I really mean it.

0:28.0

We have got a pile of stuff to cover today.

0:32.0

You know, there was a time Sarah when I thought that there were we would struggle on occasion with topics with a legal themed podcast.

0:44.0

How wrong you were.

0:46.0

How wrong I was. Okay. So we're going to talk about the Trump executive order aimed at social media.

0:52.0

We're going to answer reader mail that has more than more than a few have written either both Sarah and I or just me or just Sarah and ask this question.

1:02.0

If Trump loses any refuses to leave, what happens?

1:08.0

And then we're going to talk about the George Floyd case a bit more in Minnesota, the role of qualified immunity.

1:14.0

And whether that will apply or attach to the officers involved in that case and insulate them from civil liability.

1:20.0

We're going to talk about proxy voting for Congress and then we're going to talk about.

1:26.0

Karen's in general, but specifically and mainly the now famous Central Park.

1:34.0

Karen and kind of break that situation down and talk about what this says about our culture.

1:40.0

Before we dive in, I want to remind everyone to please subscribe to this podcast, the Apple podcast.

1:48.0

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1:56.0

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2:02.0

Okay. So Sarah, we had a long conversation about Twitter and social media yesterday on the dispatch podcast.

2:14.0

And then news happened, the feud between Trump and Twitter escalated to the point where late yesterday afternoon news broke that Trump was going to sign an executive order relating to social media.

2:28.0

Now, immediately when I heard that I had a very healthy dose of skepticism that this executive order would do much of anything.

2:38.0

The course of my skepticism was that a, you know, in the hierarchy of American law, an executive order is well below the Constitution of the United States and statutes passed by Congress in its ability to adjust American legal rights and privileges.

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